Aslam, Pavlu, and Savell [3] introduced the Hedge algorithm for metasearch which effectively combines the ranked lists of documents returned by multiple retrieval systems in resp...
Every day, people widely use information retrieval (IR) systems to answer their questions. We utilized the TREC 2007 complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) track to measur...
In this paper we describe our participation in CLEF-IP 2009 (prior art search task). This was the first year of the task and we focused on how to build effectively a prior art quer...
The CLEF-IP track was launched in 2009 to investigate IR techniques for patent retrieval. It is part of the CLEF 2009 evaluation campaign. Also, in 2009 we built a system in order ...
Adrian Iftene, Ovidiu Ionescu, George-Razvan Oance...
In this article we propose the concept of relevance criteria profiles, which provide a global view of user behaviour in judging the relevance of retrieved information. We further p...