The focus of information retrieval evaluations, such as NIST's TREC evaluations (e.g. Voorhees 2003), is on evaluation of the information content of system responses. On the ...
Olga Babko-Malaya, Dan Hunter, Connie Fournelle, J...
In this paper we report on a series of experiments designed to investigate the combination of term and document weighting functions in Information Retrieval. We describe a series ...
Abstract. We present the results of UMBC’s participation in the Web and Novelty tracks. We explored various heuristics-based link analysis approaches to the Topic Distillation ta...
Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Ch...
In this paper, we present Concept Chain Queries (CCQ), a special case of text mining in document collections focusing on detecting links between two topics across text documents. ...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...