Discovering and using implicit data for information retrieval

In real-world information retrieval (IR) tasks, the searched items and/or the users' queries often have implicit information associated with them—information that describes unspecified aspects of the items or queries. For example, in web search tasks, web pages are often pointed to by hyperlink...

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Main Author: Yi, Xing
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2011
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3482732