This paper gives an overview of the evaluation method used for the Web Retrieval Task in the Third NTCIR Workshop, which is currently in progress. In the Web Retrieval Task, we tr...
Koji Eguchi, Keizo Oyama, Emi Ishida, Kazuko Kuriy...
Most cross language information retrieval research concentrates on language pairs for which direct, rich, and often multiple translation resources already exist. However, for most...
Route planners request user input about preferred route characteristics in order to provide the user with the optimal route. Although navigators have a general idea about what con...
We present our work towards estimating the engagement of a person to the displayed information of a computer monitor. Deciding whether a user is attentive or not, and frustrated or...
Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF), a simple method for combining the document rankings from multiple IR systems, consistently yields better results than any individual system, and bett...
Gordon V. Cormack, Charles L. A. Clarke, Stefan B&...