Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
Many vertical search tasks such as local search focus on specific domains. The meaning of relevance in these verticals is domain-specific and usually consists of multiple well-d...
Changsung Kang, Xuanhui Wang, Yi Chang, Belle L. T...
Well tuned Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) has been shown to generally be more effective than vocabulary-independent techniques for ranked retrieval of spo...
An effective graphic interface is a key tool to improve the fruition of the results retrieved by an Information Retrieval (IR) system. In this work, we describe a two-dimensional...
Lorenzo De Stefani, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Giorg...
We address the task of learning rankings of documents from search engine logs of user behavior. Previous work on this problem has relied on passively collected clickthrough data. ...