Though skyline queries already have claimed their place in retrieval over central databases, their application in Web information systems up to now was impossible due to the distri...
Emails are examples of structured documents with various fields. These fields can be exploited to enhance the retrieval effectiveness of an Information Retrieval (IR) system th...
The primary function of current Web search engines is essentially relevance ranking at the document level. However, myriad structured information about real-world objects is embed...
Zaiqing Nie, Yunxiao Ma, Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen,...
Abstract This paper presents a method for combining query-relevance with information-novelty in the context of text retrieval and summarization. The Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR...
The Signature Quadratic Form Distance is an adaptive similarity measure for flexible content-based feature representations of multimedia data. In this paper, we present a deep su...