Past research has identified many different types of relevance in information retrieval (IR). So far, however, most evaluation of IR systems has been through batch experiments cond...
This paper reports about experiments carried out in the context of the genomics track at TREC 2004. Experiments were concentrated on two subtasks: the ad hoc retrieval task and th...
Wessel Kraaij, Stephan Raaijmakers, Marc Weeber, R...
The problem of polysemy involves having terms, such as “truck”, that refer to multiple concepts in different contexts; and conversely, having the same concept referred to with...
Abstract. Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is a specialized Information Retrieval (IR) branch that deals with information related to geographical locations. Traditional IR en...
Greek is one of the most difficult languages to handle in Web Information Retrieval (IR) related tasks. Its difficulty stems from the fact that it is grammatically, morphologicall...