Using the same interactive IR component as for TREC 2006, this submission probed the ability of a user without requisite domain knowledge to interactively set appropriate weights....
— The number of XML documents produced and available on the Internet is steadily increasing. It is thus important to devise automatic procedures to extract useful information fro...
Francesca Trentini, Markus Hagenbuchner, Alessandr...
Most information retrieval (IR) interfaces are designed for a single user working with a dedicated interface. We present a system in which the IR interface has been fully integrat...
Alan F. Blackwell, Mark Stringer, Eleanor F. Toye,...
The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QPRP) has been recently proposed, and accounts for interdependent document relevance when ranking. However, to be instantiated, the QPRP...
This paper presents a new pooling method for constructing the assessment sets used in the evaluation of retrieval systems. Our proposal is based on RankBoost, a machine learning v...