WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2011
ACM
Ambiguous queries constitute a significant fraction of search instances and pose real challenges to web search engines. With current approaches the top results for these queries ...
DEXA
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2009
Springer
Most information retrieval settings, such as web search, are typically precision-oriented, i.e. they focus on retrieving a small number of highly relevant documents. However, in sp...
APWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Springer
— Query term suggestion that interactively expands the queries is an indispensable technique to help users formulate high-quality queries and has attracted much attention in the ...
SCHOLARPEDIA
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
A new method for automatic indexing and retrieval is described. The approach is to take advantage of implicit higher-order structure in the association of terms with documents (&q...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2002
ACM
This paper addresses the problem of extending an adaptive information filtering system to make decisions about the novelty and redundancy of relevant documents. It argues that rel...
IWC
1998
13 years 10 months ago
1998
The aim of an information retrieval system is to nd relevant documents, thus relevance is a (if not `the') central concept of information retrieval. Notwithstanding its impor...
JBI
2002
13 years 10 months ago
2002
Document search is generally based on individual terms in the document. However, for collections within limited domains it is possible to provide more powerful access tools. This ...
CN
1998
13 years 10 months ago
1998
The MEMOIR project supports researchers working with a vast quantity of distributed information, by assisting them in finding both relevant documents and researchers with related ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper investigates the agreement of relevance assessments between official TREC judgments and those generated from an interactive IR experiment. Results show that 63% of docu...
IAJIT
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
: Information retrieval tries to identify relevant documents for an information need. The problems that an IR system should deal with include document indexing (which tries to extr...