Abstract. This paper revisits some of the established Information Retrieval (IR) techniques to investigate effective collaborative search strategies. We devised eight search strate...
Proposals for text classification and information retrieval have been recently presented making use of the WordNet ontology. Generally, this methodology requires statistical induc...
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
We regarded information retrieval as a graph search problem and proposed several novel dialog strategies that can recover from misrecognition through a spoken dialog that traverse...
Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...