Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...
In this paper, we have considered a real world information synthesis task, generation of a fixed length multi document summary which satisfies a specific information need. This...
Simple word matching between the user query and document is common, as are mis-matches of meaning that occur as a consequence, and errors in recall. These defects in the "bag...
: In information retrieval, data fusion is a technique for combining the outputs of more than one retrieval strategy which rank documents for retrieval. One of the observations oft...
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature. This structured data is increasingly exposed using information extraction systems, which generate structured relation...