Metadata IR model has high precision and low recall because the query in Metadata IR model is strict that is, the query can express user information need exactly, while Full-text I...
Most previous work on the recently developed languagemodeling approach to information retrieval focuses on document-specific characteristics, and therefore does not take into acc...
We present the InfoBeacons system, in which a peer-to-peer network of beacons cooperates to route queries to the best information sources. The routing in our system uses techniques...
In this paper, a competition-based connectionist model for diagnostic problem-solving is adapted to information retrieval. In this model, we treat documents as \disorders" an...
In this work, we investigate utilizing the structure of a website to increase the effectiveness of document retrieval within a structured domain. In particular we examine various ...