The Cranfield evaluation method has some disadvantages, including its high cost in labor and inadequacy for evaluating interactive retrieval techniques. As a very promising alter...
A key problem that arises when unstructured text is being queried is that of properly recognizing and exploiting geographical terms and entities. Here we describe a mechanism for ...
Yi Li, Alistair Moffat, Nicola Stokes, Lawrence Ca...
We present a new method for information retrievalusing hidden Markov models (HMMs). We develop a general framework for incorporating multiple word generation mechanisms within the...
: Variation in performances of an Information Retrieval system, which merges results from a number of retrieval schemes possessing equal and unequal weights, is studied in this pap...
: Some measures such as average precision over all relevant documents and recall level precision are considered as good system-oriented measures, because they concern both precisio...