This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
We report on the development of a new automatic feedback model to improve information retrieval in digital libraries. Our hypothesis is that some particular sentences, selected ba...
Patrick Ruch, Imad Tbahriti, Julien Gobeill, Alan ...
This paper is about an information retrieval evaluation on three different retrieval-supporting services. All three services were designed to compensate typical problems that aris...
Short Messaging Service (SMS) is popularly used to provide information access to people on the move. This has resulted in the growth of SMS based Question Answering (QA) services....
Govind Kothari, Sumit Negi, Tanveer A. Faruquie, V...
This paper presents a tool and a novel Fast Invariant Transform (FIT) algorithm for language independent e-documents access. The tool enables a person to access an e-document thro...
Qiong Liu, Hironori Yano, Don Kimber, Chunyuan Lia...