Although information retrieval research has always been concerned with improving the effectiveness of search, in some applications, such as information analysis, a more specific ...
We describe a user study that examined the relationship between the quality of an Information Retrieval system and the effectiveness of its users in performing a task. The task i...
Large collections of scanned documents (books and journals) are now available in Digital Libraries. The most common method for retrieving relevant information from these collectio...
Previous work on Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval has shown the inadequateness of semantic and syntactic structures for both document retrieval and categoriza...
Research on relevance feedback (RFB) in information retrieval (IR) has given mixed results. Success in RFB seems to depend on the searcher's willingness to provide feedback a...