Structured document retrieval makes use of document components as the basis of the retrieval process, rather than complete documents. The inherent relationships between these comp...
Jane Reid, Mounia Lalmas, Karen Finesilver, Morten...
This paper considers the problem of identifying on the Web compound documents (cDocs) ? groups of web pages that in aggregate constitute semantically coherent information entities...
We explore the utility of different types of topic models for retrieval purposes. Based on prior work, we describe several ways that topic models can be integrated into the retrie...
The goal of distributed information retrieval is to support effective searching over multiple document collections. For efficiency, queries should be routed to only those collectio...
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...