This paper describes the Patent Retrieval Task in the Fourth NTCIR Workshop, and the test collections produced in this task. We perform the invalidity search task, in which each p...
Local search has become a hot topic recently in information retrieval research area. How to retrieve geographical information correctly and efficiently is a key challenge to locat...
Zhisheng Li, Chong Wang 0002, Xing Xie, Xufa Wang,...
IT outsourcing has changed fundamentally since its start in the 1960’s. Since IT outsourcing services evolve and expand continuously, instruments to evaluate outsourcing success...
Abstract. We present an innovative approach to the objective quality evaluation that could be computed using the mean difference between the original and tested images in different...
Previous research on cluster-based retrieval has been inconclusive as to whether it does bring improved retrieval effectiveness over document-based retrieval. Recent developments ...