The paper makes three points of significance for IR research: (1) The Cranfield paradigm of IR evaluation seems to lose power when one looks at human instead of system performance....
Navigation in and access to the contents of digital audio archives have become increasingly important topics in Information Retrieval. Both private and commercial music collection...
This paper describes the development of a structured document collection containing user-generated text and numerical metadata for exploring the exploitation of metadata in inform...
Walid Magdy, Jinming Min, Johannes Leveling, Garet...
Abstract This paper reports our evaluation of the accuracy of capturing a user’s intent in an informationseeking task. Specifically, we would like to assess how accurately a use...
—The success of Web 2.0 communities demonstrates that the users of an information service are willing to participate in the content creation process on a voluntary basis. In this...