Background: We present a probabilistic topic-based model for content similarity called pmra that underlies the related article search feature in PubMed. Whether or not a document ...
Medical visual information retrieval has been a very active research area over the past ten years as an increasing amount of images is produced digitally and made available in the ...
Aggregate ranking tasks are those where documents are not the final ranking outcome, but instead an intermediary component. For instance, in expert search, a ranking of candidate ...
Background: The evaluation of information retrieval techniques has traditionally relied on human judges to determine which documents are relevant to a query and which are not. Thi...
Abstract—This paper introduces and analyzes a new approach to query suggestion. After the user issues a query q0, for every document retrieved in a certain rank range [Θ1, Θ2],...