The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
The UWE methodology provides a systematic, UML-based approach for the development of Web applications. The CASE tool ArgoUWE supports the design phase of the UWE development proces...
This paper presents the sequential evaluation of the question answering system SQuaLIA. This system is based on the same sequential process as most statistical question answering ...
Maintaining strict static score order of inverted lists is a heuristic used by search engines to improve the quality of query results when the entire inverted lists cannot be proc...
Chavdar Botev, Nadav Eiron, Marcus Fontoura, Ning ...
Searching for medical information on the Web has become highly popular, but it remains a challenging task because searchers are often uncertain about their exact medical situation...