We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity t...
Abstract. We propose a generative model for automatic query reformulations from an initial query using the underlying subtopic structure of top ranked retrieved documents. We addre...
Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. J...
Information Retrieval (IR) systems are built with different goals in mind. Some IR systems target high precision that is to have more relevant documents on the first page of their...
This study explores whether certain contribution incentives for online user-generated content can undermine or enhance contributor’s credibility. Through an online experiment, w...
With the explosive growth of digital music, content-based music information retrieval especially query by humming/singing have been attracting more and more attention and are beco...