With the ever increasing size of the web, relevant information extraction on the Internet with
a query formed by a few keywords has become a big challenge. Query Expansion (QE) …

Two decades ago, a breakthrough in indexing string collections made it possible to
represent them within their compressed space while at the same time offering indexed …

The extraction of useful insights from text with various types of statistical algorithms is
referred to as text mining, text analytics, or machine learning from text. The choice of …

Manga (Japanese comics) are popular worldwide. However, current e-manga archives offer
very limited search support, ie, keyword-based search by title or author. To make the manga …

This work tackles the perennial problem of reproducible baselines in information retrieval
research, focusing on bag-of-words ranking models. Although academic information …

Recent years have seen a dramatic growth of natural language text data, including web
pages, news articles, scientific literature, emails, enterprise documents, and social media …

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Fourth Edition introduces concepts, principles, and
methods for mining patterns, knowledge, and models from various kinds of data for diverse …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and
generating large data sets. Users specify a _map_ function that processes a key/value pair …

Nowadays, customer's demands for E-commerce are more diversified, which introduces
more complications to the product retrieval industry. Previous methods are either subject to …