This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Abstract. In this paper we introduce BioPubMiner, a machine learning component-based platform for biomedical information analysis. BioPubMiner employs natural language processing t...
After being a pilot track in 2005, GeoCLEF advanced to be a regular track within CLEF 2006. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information ret...
Fredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Ker...
Abstract. Ubiquitous computing environments are characterised by a high number of heterogenous devices that generate a huge amount of context data. These data are used, for example...
Researchers spent a large amount of their time searching through an ever increasing number of scientific articles. Although users of scientific search engines prefer the ranking o...