There has been a lot of work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines. In this paper, we suggest using human computation games to elicit data from players t...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...
Abstract. For document-centric work, meta-information in form of annotations has proven useful to enhance search and other retrieval tasks. Since creating annotations manually is a...
Malte Kiesel, Sven Schwarz, Ludger van Elst, Georg...
In this paper we predict the relevance of images based on a lowdimensional feature space found using several users’ eye movements. Each user is given an image-based search task,...
Zakria Hussain, Kitsuchart Pasupa, John Shawe-Tayl...
An effective graphic interface is a key tool to improve the fruition of the results retrieved by an Information Retrieval (IR) system. In this work, we describe a two-dimensional...
Lorenzo De Stefani, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Giorg...
We report on the effectiveness of language models for personalization of retrieval results based on a searcher’s preference for document genre. In principle, such preferences ca...
Gheorghe Muresan, Catherine L. Smith, Michael Cole...