We propose a mathematical framework for query selection as a mechanism for reducing the cost of constructing information retrieval test collections. In particular, our mathematica...
Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayl...
— In this paper we present a formal description of PROSA, a P2P resource management system heavily inspired by social networks. Social networks have been deeply studied in the la...
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mang...
This paper examines whether the Cranfield evaluation methodology is robust to gross violations of the completeness assumption (i.e., the assumption that all relevant documents wi...
In this paper, we present our Hindi to English and Marathi to English CLIR systems developed as part of our participation in the CLEF 2007 Ad-Hoc Bilingual task. We take a query tr...
Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Sagar Ranadive, Om P. Dam...
Although commonly used in both commercial and experimental information retrieval systems, thesauri have not demonstrated consistent bene ts for retrieval performance, and it is di...