This paper presents an extensive study about the evolution of textual content on the Web, which shows how some new pages are created from scratch while others are created using al...
Despite the widespread use of BM25, there have been few studies examining its effectiveness on a document description over single and multiple field combinations. We determine t...
We describe the objectives and organization of the CLEF 2005 ad hoc track and discuss the main characteristics of the tasks offered to test monolingual, bilingual and multilingual ...
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Gareth J. F...
Information retrieval evaluation has typically been performed over several dozen queries, each judged to near-completeness. There has been a great deal of recent work on evaluatio...
Ben Carterette, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas...
Web archives play an important role in preserving our cultural heritage for future generations. When searching them, a serious problem arises from the fact that terminology evolve...
Klaus Berberich, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Mauro Sozio...