Document length normalisation is known to be a difficult problem in IR, as tuning is often needed to overcome the collection dependence problem known to affect many normalisation s...
This paper describes our participation in the CLEF 2004 French monolingual task. We used our Terrier Information Retrieval platform and experimented with query expansion and query...
Christina Lioma, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh...
Query length in best-match information retrieval (IR) systems is well known to be positively related to effectiveness in the IR task, when measured in experimental, non-interactiv...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Diane Kelly, G. Kim, Ja-Young ...
Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...
In Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), queries in one language retrieve relevant documents in other languages. Machine-Readable Dictionary (MRD) and Machine Translation (...