Abstract. With increasing volumes of data, much effort has been devoted to finding the most suitable answer to an information need. However, in many domains, the question whether a...
Measuring effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems is essential for research and development and for monitoring search quality in dynamic environments. In this study, w...
The language modeling approach to retrieval has been shown to perform well empirically. One advantage of this new approach is its statistical foundations. However, feedback, as on...
The performance of document clustering systems depends on employing optimal text representations, which are not only difficult to determine beforehand, but also may vary from one ...
Abstract. The massive amount of textual data on the Web raises numerous classification problems. Although the notion of domain is widely acknowledged in the IR field, the applica...