The quality of the search experience has been an enduring problem for the World Wide Web. One of the well-known difficulties is the tendency of users to use short, under-specified...
Ahu Sieg, Bamshad Mobasher, Steven L. Lytinen, Rob...
This paper describes new machine learning approaches to predict the correct homepage in response to a user's homepage finding query. This involves two phases. In the first ph...
In this paper we describe the LIMSI Spoken Document Retrieval system used in the TREC-9 evaluation. This system combines an adapted version of the LIMSI 1999 Hub-4E transcription ...
Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel, Claude Barras, Gille...
As more information becomes available electronically, tools for finding information of interest to users becomes increasingly important. The goal of the research described here is...
Eric Bloedorn, Inderjeet Mani, T. Richard MacMilla...
Measuring effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems is essential for research and development and for monitoring search quality in dynamic environments. In this study, w...