Electronic mail poses a number of unusual challenges for the design of information retrieval systems and test collections, including informal expression, conversational structure,...
An expert finding system allows a user to type a simple text query and retrieve names and contact information of individuals that possess the expertise expressed in the query. Thi...
A lot of work has been done on extracting the model of web user behavior. Most of them target server-side logs that cannot track user behavior outside of the server. Recently, a no...
Shingo Otsuka, Masashi Toyoda, Jun Hirai, Masaru K...
Creating more fine-grained annotated data than previously relevent document sets is important for evaluating individual components in automatic question answering systems. In this...
Genomic IR, characterized by its highly specific information need, severe synonym and polysemy problem, long term name and rapid growing literature size, is challenging IR communit...