Search and recommendation systems must include contextual information to effectively model users’ interests. In this paper, we present a systematic study of the effectiveness of...
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
We present an account of designing and evaluating a university-wide expert search engine. We performed system-based evaluation to determine the optimal retrieval settings and an ex...
Awareness has been extensively studied in human computer interaction (HCI) and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). The success of many collaborative systems hinges on effe...
Umer Farooq, Craig H. Ganoe, John M. Carroll, Isaa...
Our approach to the Log Analysis for Digital Societies (LADS) task of LogCLEF 2009 is to define three different levels of performance: success, failure and strong failure. To inve...