During a three-day workshop in February 2012, 45 Information Retrieval researchers met to discuss long-range challenges and opportunities within the field. The result of the works...
James Allan, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Mark...
All search in the real-world is inherently interactive. Information retrieval (IR) has a firm tradition of using simulation to evaluate IR systems as embodied by the Cranfield par...
This paper introduces the Patent Mining Task of the Seventh NTCIR Workshop and the test collections produced in this task. The task's goal was the classification of research ...