tion Abstract ChengXiang Zhai (Advisor: John Lafferty) Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University With the dramatic increase in online in...
In this article the activities of the INEX 2005 Multimedia track are reported. We succesfully realized our objective, to provide an evaluation platform for the evaluation of retrie...
We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...
We investigate the effectiveness of both the standard evaluation measures and the opinion component for topical opinion retrieval. We analyze how relevance is affected by opinio...
Giambattista Amati, Giuseppe Amodeo, Valerio Capoz...
—The main concern of the Internet user-base has shifted from what kind of information are available to how to find the desired information on the Internet thanks to the explosiv...