A frozen 18.5 million page snapshot of part of the Web has been created to enable and encourage meaningful and reproducible evaluation of Web search systems and techniques. This c...
David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Paul B. Thistlewaite...
In this paper we exploit Semantic Vectors to develop an IR system. The idea is to use semantic spaces built on terms and documents to overcome the problem of word ambiguity. Word ...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semera...
Communication is an essential and necessary aspect of professional work in science and business. Besides the traditional face to face communication more and more face-file-face co...
We consider the problem of large scale retrieval evaluation. Recently two methods based on random sampling were proposed as a solution to the extensive effort required to judge te...
Computer systems increasingly rely on dynamic, phasebased system management techniques, in which system hardware and software parameters may be altered or tuned at runtime for dif...