While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
Olivier Chapelle, Donald Metlzer, Ya Zhang, Pierre...
Inverted index data structures are the key to fast search engines. The predominant operation on inverted indices asks for intersecting two sorted lists of document IDs which might...
Millions of research funding has been put down to develop - what I call - old forms - of reasoning that are characterized by strong focus on theoretical properties and strict adher...
We introduce a new interactive system: a game that is fun and can be used to create valuable output. When people play the game they help determine the contents of images by provid...
We report on the CLEF 2006 WebCLEF track devoted to crosslingual web retrieval. We provide details about the retrieval tasks, the used topic set, and the results of WebCLEF partic...