Although there are many papers examining ambiguity in Information Retrieval, this paper shows that there is a whole class of ambiguous word that past research has barely explored....
Accurate estimation of information retrieval evaluation metrics such as average precision require large sets of relevance judgments. Building sets large enough for evaluation of r...
The TREC Blog track aims to explore information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere, by building reusable test collections for blog-related search tasks. Since, its advent in TRE...
Craig Macdonald, Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Iadh Ounis,...
Modern retrieval test collections are built through a process called pooling in which only a sample of the entire document set is judged for each topic. The idea behind pooling is...
Chris Buckley, Darrin Dimmick, Ian Soboroff, Ellen...
We measure the WT10g test collection, used in the TREC-9 and TREC 2001 Web Tracks, and the .GOV test collection used in the TREC 2002 Web and Interactive Tracks, with common measu...