An information retrieval performance measure that is interpreted as the percent of perfect performance (PPP) can be used to study the effects of the inclusion of specific documen...
A number of applications require selecting targets for specific contents on the basis of criteria defined by the contents providers rather than selecting documents in response to ...
There has been a large amount of research on efficient document retrieval in both IR and web search areas. One important technique to improve retrieval efficiency is early termina...
Abstract. Recent work on analyzing query logs shows that a significant fraction of queries are temporal, i.e., relevancy is dependent on time, and temporal queries play an importan...
This report outlines our participation in CLEF-IP's 2009 prior art search task. In the task's initial year our focus lay on the automatic generation of effective queries...