Traditional machine-learned ranking algorithms for web search are trained in batch mode, which assume static relevance of documents for a given query. Although such a batch-learni...
The problem of finding quality information and services on the Web is analyzed. We present two user-centered evaluation methodologies to characterize the quality of the Web docume...
A medium-scale user study was carried out to investigate the usability of a concept-based query expansion support tool. The tool was fully integrated into the interface of an IR sy...
The probability that a term appears in relevant documents ( ) is a fundamental quantity in several probabilistic retrieval models, however it is difficult to estimate without rele...
This paper presents a transductive approach to learn ranking functions for extractive multi-document summarization. At the first stage, the proposed approach identifies topic th...