Different information retrieval (IR) systems often return very diverse results lists for the same query. This is problematic for users since no one IR system works best for every ...
Ranking is a key problem in many information retrieval (IR) applications, such as document retrieval and collaborative filtering. In this paper, we address the issue of learning ...
Some recent works have shown that the “perfect” selection of the best IR system per query could lead to a significant improvement on the retrieval performance. Motivated by thi...
Many applications in information retrieval, natural language processing, data mining, and related fields require a ranking of instances with respect to a specified criteria as op...
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...