The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
This paper introduces a new method for linking the world view of the search engine user community with that of the search engine itself. This new method is based on collecting and...
Einat Amitay, Adam Darlow, David Konopnicki, Uri W...
In this paper we present an e-librarian service which is able to retrieve multimedia resources from a knowledge base in a more efficient way than by browsing through an index or by...
We give a fresh look into score normalization for merging result-lists, isolating the problem from other components. We focus on three of the simplest, practical, and widelyused l...
Retrieving entities instead of just documents has become an important task for search engines. In this paper we study entity retrieval for news applications, and in particular the...
Gianluca Demartini, Malik Muhammad Saad Missen, Ro...