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BMCBI
2008
14 years 9 months ago
2008
Background: Keyword searching through PubMed and other systems is the standard means of retrieving information from Medline. However, ad-hoc retrieval systems do not meet all of t...
CIVR
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
2009
Springer
In this paper we present a method to jointly optimise the relevance and the diversity of the results in image retrieval. Without considering diversity, image retrieval systems oft...
CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
2005
Springer
Subject-specific search facilities on health sites are usually built using manual inclusion and exclusion rules. These can be expensive to maintain and often provide incomplete c...
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CIKM
2011
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2011
Springer
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
2003
ACM
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...