The nDCG measure has proven to be a popular measure of retrieval effectiveness utilizing graded relevance judgments. However, a number of different instantiations of nDCG exist, d...
One of the main problems in online advertising is to display ads which are relevant and appropriate w.r.t. what the user is looking for. Often search engines fail to reach this go...
Roberto Mirizzi, Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, ...
This paper describes a vector space equalization scheme for a concept-based collaborative information retrieval system; evaluation results are given. The authors previously propos...
The wikipediaMM task provides a testbed for the system-oriented evaluation of ad-hoc retrieval from a collection of Wikipedia images. It became a part of the ImageCLEF evaluation ...
This paper describes the Patent Retrieval Task in the Fourth NTCIR Workshop, and the test collections produced in this task. We perform the invalidity search task, in which each p...