Language model (LM) adaptation is often achieved by combining a generic LM with a topic-specific model that is more relevant to the target document. Unlike previous work on unsup...
Users as actors in interactive information retrieval (IIR) are seen in the contexts of their perceived work tasks and information seeking behaviour. The paper models IIR processes ...
We present our approach to defining similarity between software artifacts and discuss its potential exploitation in software reuse by analogy. We first establish properties of si...
Pseudo feedback is a commonly used technique to improve information retrieval performance. It assumes a few top-ranked documents to be relevant, and learns from them to improve th...
We describe the INEX 2004 participation of the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. We completely revamped our XML retrieval system, now implemented as a mixture l...