Latent entity space: a novel retrieval approach for entity-bearing queriesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 18 - Trang 473-503 - 2015
Xitong Liu, Hui Fang
Analysis on Web search query logs has revealed that there is a large portion of entity-bearing queries, reflecting the increasing demand of users on retrieving relevant information about entities such as persons, organizations, products, etc. In the meantime, significant progress has been made in Web-scale information extraction, which enables efficient entity extraction from free text. Since an e...... hiện toàn bộ
Adding Compression to Block Addressing Inverted IndexesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 3 - Trang 49-77 - 2000
Gonzalo Navarro, Edleno Silva de Moura, Marden Neubert, Nivio Ziviani, Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Inverted index compression, block addressing and sequential search on compressed text are three techniques that have been separately developed for efficient, low-overhead text retrieval. Modern text compression techniques can reduce the text to less than 30% of its size and allow searching it directly and faster than the uncompressed text. Inverted index compression obtains significant reduction o...... hiện toàn bộ
Efficient query processing techniques for next-page retrievalSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 25 - Trang 27-43 - 2022
Joel Mackenzie, Matthias Petri, Alistair Moffat
In top-k ranked retrieval the goal is to efficiently compute an ordered list of the highest scoring k documents according to some stipulated similarity function such as the well-known BM25 approach. In most implementation techniques a min-heap of size k is used to track the top scoring candidates. In this work we consider the question of how best to retrieve the second page of search results, give...... hiện toàn bộ
Dempster-Shafer Theory for a Query-Biased Combination of Evidence on the WebSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 8 - Trang 197-218 - 2005
Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis
This paper reports on a large-scale experiment for the evaluation of a formal query-biased combination of evidence mechanism. We use the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence to combine optimally results obtained by content and link analyses on the Web. The query-biased mechanism is based on the query scope, a measure of the query specificity. The query scope is defined using a probabilistic propagat...... hiện toàn bộ
Learning to rank for why-question answeringSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 14 - Trang 107-132 - 2010
Suzan Verberne, Hans van Halteren, Daphne Theijssen, Stephan Raaijmakers, Lou Boves
In this paper, we evaluate a number of machine learning techniques for the task of ranking answers to why-questions. We use TF-IDF together with a set of 36 linguistically motivated features that characterize questions and answers. We experiment with a number of machine learning techniques (among which several classifiers and regression techniques, Ranking SVM and SVM
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Robust keyword search in large attributed graphsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 23 - Trang 502-524 - 2020
Spencer Bryson, Heidar Davoudi, Lukasz Golab, Mehdi Kargar, Yuliya Lytvyn, Piotr Mierzejewski, Jaroslaw Szlichta, Morteza Zihayat
There is a growing need to explore attributed graphs such as social networks, expert networks, and biological networks. A well-known mechanism for non-technical users to explore such graphs is keyword search, which receives a set of query keywords and returns a connected subgraph that contains the keywords. However, existing approaches, such as methods based on shortest paths between nodes contain...... hiện toàn bộ