This paper describes a simple way of adapting the BM25 ranking formula to deal with
structured documents. In the past it has been common to compute scores for the individual …

An important class of searches on the world-wide-web has the goal to find an entry page
(homepage) of an organisation. Entry page search is quite different from Ad Hoc search …

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 …

Abstract The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) is a workshop series designed to build the
infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of text retrieval technology. Participants in …

The evaluation of exploratory search relies on the ongoing paradigm shift from focusing on
the search algorithm to focusing on the interactive process. This paper proposes a model …

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5,606.609 A 2f1997 Houser et al. with each of the documents on the network. The click
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A field-weighted search combines statistical information for each term across document
fields in a suitably weighted fash ion. Both field-specific term frequencies and field and docu …

A neural network is used to process a set of ranking features in order to determine the
relevancy ranking for a set of docu ments or other items. The neural network calculates a pre …

US PATENT DOCUMENTS component having a ranking component that can be used to
rank search results as part of a query response. In one embodi ment, the ranking component …