A semi-structured information space consists of multiple collections of textual documents containing fielded or tagged sections. The space can be highly heterogeneous, because eac...
We consider an interactive information retrieval task in which the user is interested in finding several to many relevant documents with minimal effort. Given an initial documen...
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...
We consider the problem of ranking refinement, i.e., to improve the accuracy of an existing ranking function with a small set of labeled instances. We are, particularly, intereste...
In this project (VIRSI) we investigate the promising contentbased retrieval paradigm known as interactive search or relevance feedback, and aim to extend it through the use of syn...
Bart Thomee, Mark J. Huiskes, Erwin M. Bakker, Mic...