— Often document dissemination is limited to a “need to know” basis so as to better maintain organizational trade secrets. Retrieving documents that are off-topic to a user...
A commercial Web page typically contains many information blocks. Apart from the main content blocks, it usually has such blocks as navigation panels, copyright and privacy notice...
Evaluating user preferences of web search results is crucial for search engine development, deployment, and maintenance. We present a real-world study of modeling the behavior of ...
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan T. Dumais, Rob...
Record linkage is an important data integration task that has many practical uses for matching, merging and duplicate removal in large and diverse databases. However, a quadratic ...
Timothy de Vries, Hui Ke, Sanjay Chawla, Peter Chr...
This paper describes the experience of QAST 2009, the third time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Four ...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Olivier Ga...