1 This paper presents an investigation into the utility of document summarisation in the context of information retrieval, more specifically in the application of so called query b...
Capitalizing on the intuitive underlying assumptions of Language Modelling for Ad-Hoc Retrieval we present a novel approach that is capable of injecting the user’s context of th...
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Cornelis Joost van ...
Effective access to knowledge within large declarative memory stores is one challenge in the development and understanding of long-living, generally intelligent agents. We focus o...
Information retrieval systems are evaluated against test collections of topics, documents, and assessments of which documents are relevant to which topics. Documents are chosen fo...
Leveraging clickthrough data has become a popular approach for evaluating and optimizing information retrieval systems. Although data is plentiful, one must take care when interpr...