This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform ...
Query expansion techniques generally select new query terms from a set of top ranked documents. Although a user’s manual judgment of those documents would much help to select goo...
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...
This paper presents a unified framework for the evaluation of a range of structured document retrieval (SDR) approaches and tasks. The framework is based on a model of tree retrie...
Mir Sadek Ali, Mariano P. Consens, Gabriella Kazai...
In order to help users navigate an image search system, one could provide explicit information on a small set of images as to which of them are relevant or not to their task. Thes...