We describe an attempt to use word sense as an alternate text representation within an information retrieval system in order to enhance retrieval effectiveness. A performance comp...
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2003 Robust and Web tracks. For the Robust track, we experimented with the impact of stemming and feedback on the worst scoring topics. ...
Jaap Kamps, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, B&oum...
Previous research in novelty detection has focused on the task of finding novel material, given a set or stream of documents on a certain topic. This study investigates the more ...
In the task of adaptive information filtering, a system receives a stream of documents but delivers only those that match a person's information need. As the system filters i...
This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Mu...