Term-weighting functions derived from various models of retrieval aim to model human notions of relevance more accurately. However, there is a lack of analysis of the sources of e...
This paper examines whether the Cranfield evaluation methodology is robust to gross violations of the completeness assumption (i.e., the assumption that all relevant documents wi...
We approached the problem as learning how to order documents by estimated relevance with respect to a user query. Our support vector machines based classifier learns from the rele...
Dmitri Roussinov, Weiguo Fan, Fernando A. Das Neve...
It is well known that anchor text plays a critical role in a variety of search tasks performed over hypertextual domains, including enterprise search, wiki search, and web search....
Donald Metzler, Jasmine Novak, Hang Cui, Srihari R...
Carrying out experiments in Information Retrieval is a heavy activity requiring fast tools to treat collections of significant size, and at the same time flexible tools to leave...