Traditional models of information retrieval assume documents are independently relevant. But when the goal is retrieving diverse or novel information about a topic, retrieval mode...
: A mass of heterogeneous, distributed and dynamic information on the World Wide Web (the Web) has resulted in "information overload". It's an important and urgent r...
Jicheng Wang, Xiangyu Jin, Yang Xiaojiang, Fuyan Z...
Evaluation in Information Retrieval (IR) has long focused on effectiveness and efficiency. However, new and emerging access tasks now demand alternative evaluation measures which ...
Metasearch engines submit the user query to several underlying search engines and then merge their retrieved results to generate a single list that is more effective to the users&...
Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...