This paper proposes a system of retrieving English sentences by utilizing linguistically structural information. The user’s query consists of a sequence of keywords. The system ...
Information retrieval system evaluation is complicated by the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. Large manually-built directories on the web open the door to new eval...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
Traditional retrieval evaluation uses explicit relevance judgments which are expensive to collect. Relevance assessments inferred from implicit feedback such as click-through data...
Katja Hofmann, Bouke Huurnink, Marc Bron, Maarten ...
Electronic mail poses a number of unusual challenges for the design of information retrieval systems and test collections, including informal expression, conversational structure,...
Online forums host a rich information exchange, often with contributions from many subject matter experts. In this work we evaluate algorithms for thread retrieval in a large and ...