This report outlines our participation in CLEF-IP's 2009 prior art search task. In the task's initial year our focus lay on the automatic generation of effective queries...
Previous examinations of search in textual archives have assumed that users first retrieve a ranked set of documents relevant to their query, and then visually scan through these ...
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, John Choi, Dona...
In TREC 2007 Blog Track, we developed a three-step algorithm for the opinion retrieval task. An information retrieval step retrieves the query-relevant documents. A following opin...
Conceptual information retrieval systems use structured document indices, domain knowledge and a set of heuristic retrieval strategies to match user queries with a set of indices ...
As the most pervasive method of individual identification and document authentication, signatures present convincing evidence and provide an important form of indexing for effectiv...