An information retrieval performance measure that is interpreted as the percent of perfect performance (PPP) can be used to study the effects of the inclusion of specific documen...
Intelligence analysts grapple with many challenges, chief among them is the need for software support in storytelling, i.e., automatically ‘connecting the dots’ between dispar...
M. Shahriar Hossain, Patrick Butler, Arnold P. Boe...
Every time a user engaged in work reads or writes, the user spontaneously generates new information needs: to understand the text he or she is reading or to supply more substance ...
David A. Evans, Gregory Grefenstette, Yan Qu, Jame...
We consider the problem of evaluating retrieval systems using incomplete judgment information. Buckley and Voorhees recently demonstrated that retrieval systems can be efficiently...
Manually querying search engines in order to accumulate a large body of factual information is a tedious, error-prone process of piecemeal search. Search engines retrieve and rank...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, S...