Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
Abstract-- We introduce the novel notion of explanationbased diversification to address the well-known problem of overspecialization in item recommendations. Over-specialization in...
Query expansion is a functionality of search engines that suggests a set of related queries for a user-issued keyword query. Typical corpus-driven keyword query expansion approach...
Search queries on biomedical databases like PubMed often return a large number of results, only a small subset of which is relevant to the user. Ranking and categorization, which c...
This paper analyzes the results of the INEX 2009 Ad Hoc Track, focusing on a variety of topics. First, we examine in detail the relevance judgments. Second, we study the resulting ...