Modern retrieval test collections are built through a process called pooling in which only a sample of the entire document set is judged for each topic. The idea behind pooling is...
Chris Buckley, Darrin Dimmick, Ian Soboroff, Ellen...
Ranking is a key problem in many information retrieval (IR) applications, such as document retrieval and collaborative filtering. In this paper, we address the issue of learning ...
We consider an interactive information retrieval task in which the user is interested in finding several to many relevant documents with minimal effort. Given an initial documen...
Question Answering has been the recent focus of information retrieval research; many systems just incorporate a search engine as a black box and most effort has been devoted to the...
Through the recent NTCIR workshops, patent retrieval casts many challenging issues to information retrieval community. Unlike newspaper articles, patent documents are very long an...
In-Su Kang, Seung-Hoon Na, Jungi Kim, Jong-Hyeok L...