In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Discovering links between different data items in a single data source or across different data sources is a challenging problem faced by many information systems today. In partic...
Answer typing is commonly thought of as finding appropriate responses to given questions. We extend the notion of answer typing to information retrieval to ensure results contain...
Desktop search is an important part of personal information management (PIM). However, research in this area has been limited by the lack of shareable test collections, making cum...
Leveraging information from relevance assessments has been proposed as an effective means for improving retrieval. We introduce a novel language modeling method which uses inform...