In this paper we explore the use of parsimonious language models for web retrieval. These models are smaller thus more efficient than the standard language models and are therefor...
Most applications accessible through the Web suffer from a noticeable lack of support for adapting to the different information needs that different users may have regarding a cert...
Recently, there have been a number of algorithms proposed for analyzing hypertext link structure so as to determine the best "authorities" for a given topic or query. Wh...
Allan Borodin, Gareth O. Roberts, Jeffrey S. Rosen...
When considering Web services’ (WS) use for online business-to-business (B2B) collaboration between companies, security is a complicated and very topical issue. This is especial...
: This is the first year our lab to participate in Trec. We participate in Mixed-Query task for the Web track. All the runs we submitted are based on the modified Okapi weighting s...