Retrieving relevant information is a crucial component of cased-based reasoning systems for Internet applications such as search engines. The task is to use user-defined queries to...
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...
In this poster, we propose the framework of BizCQ, a system to apply Continual Queries [7][8] on Web-based content to manage information exchanges between two business partners. I...
The retrieval of similar documents in the Web from a given document is different in many aspects from information retrieval based on queries generated by regular search engine use...
Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Gaston L'Huillier, Sebasti&a...
Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...