In this paper, a sample set of 510 simple searches from the TEL action log 2009 is analyzed for query content and query language. More than half of the queries are for named entiti...
Entity profiling is the task of identifying and ranking descriptions of a given entity. The task may be viewed as one where the descriptions being sought are terms that need to be ...
Maarten de Rijke, Krisztian Balog, Toine Bogers, A...
We propose to use MapReduce to quickly test new retrieval approaches on a cluster of machines by sequentially scanning all documents. We present a small case study in which we use ...
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...
Abstract. We report our experiences from participating to the controlled experiment of the ImageCLEF 2010 Wikipedia Retrieval task. We built an experimental search engine which com...
Avi Arampatzis, Savvas A. Chatzichristofis, Konsta...
The SINAI1 research group presents some results obtained after performing a brief analysis to the query logs from The European Library2 (TEL). The objective of the LogCLEF task is ...
Classic textual question answering (QA) approaches that rely on statistical keyword relevance scoring without exploiting semantic content are useful to a certain extent, but are li...
Nuno Cardoso, Iustin Dornescu, Sven Hartrumpf, Joh...