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ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Influence Diagrams for Contextual Information Retrieval
The purpose of contextual information retrieval is to make some exploration towards designing user specific search engines that are able to adapt the retrieval model to the variety...
Lynda Tamine-Lechani, Mohand Boughanem
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Adapting the JIRS Passage Retrieval System to the Arabic Language
The need of having a Passage Retrieval (PR) system for Arabic texts is due essentially to our aim to build an Arabic Question Answering (QA) system in our research team. We have ch...
Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, José Manuel ...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
When will information retrieval be "good enough"?
We describe a user study that examined the relationship between the quality of an Information Retrieval system and the effectiveness of its users in performing a task. The task i...
James Allan, Ben Carterette, Joshua Lewis
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Quantum-Based Model for Interactive Information Retrieval
Abstract Even the best information retrieval model cannot always identify the most useful answers to a user query. This is in particular the case with web search systems, where it ...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Mounia Lalmas