The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...
An effective graphic interface is a key tool to improve the fruition of the results retrieved by an Information Retrieval (IR) system. In this work, we describe a two-dimensional...
Lorenzo De Stefani, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Giorg...
We investigate the effectiveness of both the standard evaluation measures and the opinion component for topical opinion retrieval. We analyze how relevance is affected by opinio...
Giambattista Amati, Giuseppe Amodeo, Valerio Capoz...
Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF), a simple method for combining the document rankings from multiple IR systems, consistently yields better results than any individual system, and bett...
Gordon V. Cormack, Charles L. A. Clarke, Stefan B&...
Traditional boosting algorithms for the ranking problems usually employ the pairwise approach and convert the document rating preference into a binary-value label, like RankBoost....
Chenguang Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Gang...