The combination of evidence can increase retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a decision mechanism for the selective combination of evidence...
Ranking information retrieval (IR) systems with respect to their effectiveness is a crucial operation during IR evaluation, as well as during data fusion. This paper offers a no...
Abstract. In this paper we address the problem of searching for knowledgeable persons within the enterprise, known as the expert finding (or expert search) task. We present a proba...
Sentiment classification is the task of labeling a review document according to the polarity of its prevailing opinion (favorable or unfavorable). In approaching this problem, a m...
Philip Beineke, Trevor Hastie, Shivakumar Vaithyan...
Abstract. The ImageCLEF task of CLEF has a main goal in the retrieval of images from multi–lingual collections. The 2003 imageCLEF saw no group using the visual information of im...