We assess a family of ranking mechanisms for search engines based on linkage analysis using a carefully engineered subset of the World Wide Web, WT10g (Bailey, Craswell and Hawking...
Collaborative filtering techniques have been successfully employed in recommender systems in order to help users deal with information overload by making high quality personalize...
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Wolfgang Nejdl, Cristian Z...
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Sentence fusion enables summarization and question-answering systems to produce output by combining fully formed phrases from different sentences. Yet there is little data that ca...
Kathleen McKeown, Sara Rosenthal, Kapil Thadani, C...
Collections are a fundamental tool for reproducible evaluation of information retrieval techniques. We describe a new method for distributing the document lengths and term counts ...