N-gram analysis provides a means of probabilistically predicting the next item in a sequence. Due originally to Shannon, it has proven an effective technique for word prediction i...
Christian J. Muise, Sheila A. McIlraith, Jorge A. ...
Abstract. The Mongue-Elkan method is a general text string comparison method based on an internal character-based similarity measure (e.g. edit distance) combined with a token leve...
Sergio Jimenez, Claudia Becerra, Alexander F. Gelb...
The combination of evidence can increase retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a decision mechanism for the selective combination of evidence...
Traditional information retrieval systems aim at satisfying most users for most of their searches, leaving aside the context in which the search takes place. We propose to model tw...
Nathalie Hernandez, Josiane Mothe, Claude Chrismen...
Past research has identified many different types of relevance in information retrieval (IR). So far, however, most evaluation of IR systems has been through batch experiments cond...