Information retrieval is generally considered an individual activity, and information retrieval research and tools reflect this view. As digitally mediated communication and infor...
Steven E. Poltrock, Jonathan Grudin, Susan T. Duma...
Measuring effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems is essential for research and development and for monitoring search quality in dynamic environments. In this study, w...
Combating Web spam is one of the greatest challenges for Web search engines. State-of-the-art anti-spam techniques focus mainly on detecting varieties of spam strategies, such as ...
Chao Wei, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun...
Abstract This paper reports our evaluation of the accuracy of capturing a user’s intent in an informationseeking task. Specifically, we would like to assess how accurately a use...
In word sense disambiguation, choosing the most frequent sense for an ambiguous word is a powerful heuristic. However, its usefulness is restricted by the availability of sense-an...