Freshness has been increasingly realized by commercial search engines as an important criteria for measuring the quality of search results. However, most information retrieval met...
Generative models such as statistical language modeling have been widely studied in the task of expert search to model the relationship between experts and their expertise indicat...
User queries to search engines are observed to predominantly contain inflected content words but lack stopwords and capitalization. Thus, they often resemble natural language que...
Nowadays, cross-lingual Information Retrieval (IR) is one of the greatest challenges to deal with. Besides, one of the most important issues in IR consists in the corpus vocabular...
This paper contributes to a facet from the area of Web Information Retrieval that has recently received much attention: The satisfaction of a user's personal information need ...