Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
When researching new product ideas or filing new patents, inventors need to retrieve all relevant pre-existing know-how and/or to exploit and enforce patents in their technologica...
Milan Agatonovic, Niraj Aswani, Kalina Bontcheva, ...
ResearchinHumanitiesandSocialSciencesistraditionallybasedonprintedpublicationssuchasmanuscripts, personal correspondence, first editions and other types of documents which are oft...
Michele Nucci, Michele Barbera, Christian Morbidon...
Adverse events in hospitals, events in which harm results to a person receiving health care, are well documented (Wilson 1995, Hepler 2001). However, while factors such as lack of...