While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
Olivier Chapelle, Donald Metlzer, Ya Zhang, Pierre...
Swoogle is a crawler-based indexing and retrieval system for the Semantic Web documents – i.e., RDF or OWL documents. It analyzes the documents it discovered to compute useful m...
Li Ding, Timothy W. Finin, Anupam Joshi, Rong Pan,...
In this paper, we discuss how to present the result of searching elements of any type from XML documents relevant to some information need (relevance-oriented search). As the resu...
Learning a good ranking function plays a key role for many applications including the task of (multimedia) information retrieval. While there are a few rank learning methods availa...
Ranking for multilingual information retrieval (MLIR) is a task to rank documents of different languages solely based on their relevancy to the query regardless of query’s langu...