Quality is an open concept. Something has a good quality when the most salient of its characteristics have a positive value. What are this relevant features? It depends on the int...
Patrizia Ghislandi, Anna Pedroni, Daniela Paolino,...
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
Background: Keyword searching through PubMed and other systems is the standard means of retrieving information from Medline. However, ad-hoc retrieval systems do not meet all of t...
Graham L. Poulter, Daniel L. Rubin, Russ B. Altman...
Web search engines are traditionally evaluated in terms of the relevance of web pages to individual queries. However, relevance of web pages does not tell the complete picture, si...
This paper outlines first the BET method for task-based evaluation of meeting browsers. ‘Observations of interest’ in meetings are empirically determined by neutral observers ...
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Philippe Baudrion, Mike Flyn...