An empirical study has been conducted investigating the relationship between the performance of a generative language model in terms of perplexity and the corresponding informatio...
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Keith van Rijsberge...
In the logical approach to information retrieval (IR), retrieval is considered as uncertain inference. Whereas classical IR models are based on propositional logic, we combine Dat...
This paper introduces the concept of accessibility from the field of transportation planning and adopts it within the context of Information Retrieval (IR). An analogy is drawn bet...
Abstract. This paper describes the design of the first large-scale IR test collection built for the Czech language. The creation of this collection also happens to be very challen...
Pavel Ircing, Pavel Pecina, Douglas W. Oard, Jianq...
In this paper we look at some of the problems in interacting with best-match retrieval systems. In particular, we examine the areas of interaction, some investigations of the compl...