We report on the effectiveness of language models for personalization of retrieval results based on a searcher’s preference for document genre. In principle, such preferences ca...
Gheorghe Muresan, Catherine L. Smith, Michael Cole...
This paper contributes to a facet from the area of Web Information Retrieval that has recently received much attention: The satisfaction of a user's personal information need ...
Abstract. Use of document genre in information retrieval systems has the potential to improve the task-appropriateness of results. However, genre classification remains a challengi...
Luanne Freund, Charles L. A. Clarke, Elaine G. Tom...
This paper presents results in automated genre classification of digital documents in PDF format. It describes genre classification as an important ingredient in contextualising s...
In many applications, we find large video collections from different genres where the user is often only interested in one or two specific video genres. So, when users are queryin...