This poster session examines a probabilistic approach to distributed information retrieval using a Logistic Regression algorithm for estimation of collection relevance. The algori...
The paper makes three points of significance for IR research: (1) The Cranfield paradigm of IR evaluation seems to lose power when one looks at human instead of system performance....
The proliferation of different kinds of mobile devices, ranging from personal wireless devices, such as PDAs and smart phones, to small notebooks, is enabling ubiquitous personal ...
Gerardo Canfora, Giuseppe Di Santo, Gabriele Ventu...
We present an approach for answering Entity Retrieval queries using click-through information in query log data from a commercial Web search engine. We compare results using click...
Bodo Billerbeck, Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Fi...
On July 24, 2008 the SIGIR Workshop on Focused Retrieval was held as part of SIGIR in Singapore. Nine paper were presented in three sessions and in a fourth session--joint with th...