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 ...
We describe our participation in the 2009 CLEF-IP task, which was targeted at priorart search for topic patent documents. Our system retrieved patent documents based on a standard...
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&...
The domain-specific track uses test collections from the social science domain to test monolingual and cross-language retrieval in structured bibliographic databases. Special atte...
Vivien Petras, Stefan Baerisch, Maximilian Stempfh...
There is a growing research interest in opinion retrieval as on-line users' opinions are becoming more and more popular in business, social networks, etc. Practically speakin...