—Libraries in South Asia hold huge collections of valuable printed documents in Urdu and it is of interest to digitize these collections to make them more accessible. The unavail...
Context influences the search process, but to date research has not definitively identified which aspects of context are the most influential for information retrieval, and thus a...
Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms, Charles L. A. Clark...
Most traditional Information Retrieval (IR) systems, including web search engines, operationalize “relevant” as the word frequency in a document of a set of keywords. Because ...
Hyun Woong Shin, Eduard H. Hovy, Dennis McLeod, La...
Content-only retrieval of XML documents deals with the problem of locating the smallest XML elements that satisfy the query. In this paper, we investigate the application of a spec...
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...