Opinion finding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially difficult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this pa...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iad...
The traditional retrieval models based on term matching are not effective in collections of degraded documents (output of OCR or ASR systems for instance). This paper presents a n...
: In the last decade, many evaluation results have been created within the evaluation initiatives like TREC, NTCIR and CLEF. The large amount of data available has led to substanti...
This paper presents a new approach designed to reduce the computational load of the existing clustering algorithms by trimming down the documents size using fingerprinting methods...
The task in expert finding is to identify members of an organization with relevant expertise on a given topic. In existing expert finding systems, profiles are constructed from sou...
Maryam Karimzadehgan, Ryen W. White, Matthew Richa...
Abstract. Collecting relevance judgments (qrels) is an especially challenging part of building an information retrieval test collection. This paper presents a novel method for crea...