In many text retrieval tasks, it is highly desirable to obtain a "similarity profile" of the document collection for a given query. We propose sampling-based techniques ...
Fusion and optimization based on relevance judgements have proven to be successful strategies in information retrieval. In this year's CLEF campaign we applied these strategi...
We study the evaluation of opinion retrieval systems. Opinion retrieval is a relatively new research area, nevertheless classical evaluation measures, those adopted for ad hoc ret...
Giambattista Amati, Giuseppe Amodeo, Valerio Capoz...
The emergence of the world-wide-web has led to an increased interest in methods for searching for information. A key characteristic of many of the online document collections is t...