After being a pilot track in 2005, GeoCLEF advanced to be a regular track within CLEF 2006. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information ret...
Fredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Ker...
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is commonly used to match queries to documents in information retrieval applications. LSI has been shown to improve retrieval performance for some, ...
We consider the problem of identifying the consensus ranking for the results of a query, given preferences among those results from a set of individual users. Once consensus ranki...
Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Anton M...
Stemming algorithms find canonical forms for inflected words, e. g. for declined nouns or conjugated verbs. Since such a unification of words with respect to gender, number, time, ...
As one of the most effective query expansion approaches, local feedback is able to automatically discover new query terms and improve retrieval accuracy for different retrieval ...