Recent email spam filtering evaluations, such as those conducted at TREC, have shown that near-perfect filtering results are attained with a variety of machine learning methods wh...
Question answering systems increasingly need to deal with complex information needs that require more than simple factoid answers. The evaluation of such systems is usually carrie...
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Abstract. In this paper we propose the extended star clustering algorithm and compare it with the original star clustering algorithm. We introduce a new concept of star and as a co...
The paper presents two approaches to interactively refining user search formulations and their evaluation in the new High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents (HARD) track of TREC-12...