A number of experiments conducted within the framework of the TREC-5 conference and using the Parallel Document Retrieval Engine (PADRE) are reported. Several of the experiments i...
The Terabyte Track explores how adhoc retrieval and evaluation techniques can scale to terabyte-sized collections. For TREC 2004, our first year, 50 new adhoc topics were created ...
This paper describes our experiments on the two tasks of the TREC 2007 Enterprise track. In data preprocessing stage we stripped the non-letter character from documents and query....
Abstract. Inspired by AND/OR search spaces for graphical models recently introduced, we propose to augment Ordered Decision Diagrams with AND nodes, in order to capture function de...
Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...