Data fusion on the Web refers to the merging, into a unified single list, of the ranked document lists, which are retrieved in response to a user query by more than one Web search...
We present a novel interpretation of Clarity [5], a widely used query performance predictor. While Clarity is commonly described as a measure of the “distance” between the lan...
Shay Hummel, Anna Shtok, Fiana Raiber, Oren Kurlan...
Different information retrieval (IR) systems often return very diverse results lists for the same query. This is problematic for users since no one IR system works best for every ...
We describe our participation in the INEX 2009 Entity Ranking track. We employ a probabilistic retrieval model for entity search in which term-based and category-based representati...
Krisztian Balog, Marc Bron, Maarten de Rijke, Wout...
Queries describe the users' search intent and therefore they play an essential role in the context of ranking for information retrieval and Web search. However, most of exist...