HITIQA is an interactive question answering technology designed to allow intelligence analysts and other users of information systems to pose questions in natural language and obt...
During the last years a great number of Query Performance Prediction methods have been proposed. However, this explosion of prediction method proposals have not been paralleled by ...
Ranking a set retrieval systems according to their retrieval effectiveness without relying on relevance judgments was first explored by Soboroff et al. [13]. Over the years, a numb...
Multimedia information retrieval systems design is currently considered a complex task since it requires an understanding of users specific way of searching, processing and using ...
This paper points out that many machine learning problems in IR should be and can be formalized in a novel way, referred to as `group-based learning'. In group-based learning...