Modeling the beyond-topical aspects of relevance are currently gaining popularity in IR evaluation. For example, the discounted cumulated gain (DCG) measure implicitly models some...
We present HAMLET, a suite of principles, scoring models and algorithms to automatically propagate metadata along edges in a document neighborhood. As a showcase scenario we consi...
Adriana Budura, Sebastian Michel, Philippe Cudr&ea...
Personalization of information retrieval tailors search towards individual users to meet their particular information needs by taking into account information about users and thei...
Jingjing Liu, Michael J. Cole, Chang Liu, Ralf Bie...
Query reformulation modifies the original query with the aim of better matching the vocabulary of the relevant documents, and consequently improving ranking effectiveness. Previou...
Most product search engines today build on models of relevance devised for information retrieval. However, the decision mechanism that underlies the process of buying a product is...