Probabilistic Argumentation Systems (PAS) are a technique for representing uncertainty both symbolically and numerically. It is shown that this technique, which combines symbolic ...
Abstract When searching for information about historical events, queries are naturally formulated using temporal constraints. However, the structured temporal information needed to...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...
We introduce IR-Wire, a tool for information retrieval research and education in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. Built on top of LimeWire's implementation of the popular G...
Linh Thai Nguyen, Wai Gen Yee, Dongmei Jia, Ophir ...
- We investigate extensions of the classical measurement of effectiveness in information retrieval systems, precision and recall, to situations where the answer is modeled by a fuz...