Click data captures many users’ document preferences for a query and has been shown to help significantly improve search engine ranking. However, most click data is noisy and of...
Visual Query Languages represent an evolution, in terms of understandability and adaptability, with respect to traditional textual languages. We present an iconic query system tha...
Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Andrea De Lucia,...
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
We consider the problem of a user querying semistructured data such as RDF without knowing its structure. In these circumstances, it is helpful if the querying system can perform a...
Carlos A. Hurtado, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter ...
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...