Soboroff, Nicholas and Cahan recently proposed a method for evaluating the performance of retrieval systems without relevance judgments. They demonstrated that the system evaluat...
In this paper we address the task of finding topically relevant email messages in public discussion lists. We make two important observations. First, email messages are not isolat...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
Grounded language models represent the relationship between words and the non-linguistic context in which they are said. This paper describes how they are learned from large corpo...
We describe a joint probabilistic model for modeling the contents and inter-connectivity of document collections such as sets of web pages or research paper archives. The model is...
We explore several different document representation models and two query expansion models for the task of recommending blogs to a user in response to a query. Blog relevance rank...
Jaime Arguello, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jamie Callan, J...