Users enter queries that are short as well as long. The aim of this work is to evaluate techniques that can enable information retrieval (IR) systems to automatically adapt to per...
This article describes an algorithm called HyperLex that is capable of automatically determining word uses in a textbase without recourse to a dictionary. The algorithm makes use ...
Geo-referenced information is used by a growing number of “spatially-aware” tools in different application areas, including tourism, marketing, environmental management, and m...
Traditional benchmarking methods for information retrieval (IR) are based on experimental performance evaluation. Although the metrics precision and recall can measure the perform...
Dawei Song, Kam-Fai Wong, Peter Bruza, Chun Hung C...
Abstract. The Information Retrieval community uses a variety of performance measures to evaluate the effectiveness of scoring functions. In this paper, we show how to adapt six pop...