There has been recent interest in collecting user or assessor preferences, rather than absolute judgments of relevance, for the evaluation or learning of ranking algorithms. Since...
: The evaluation of information retrieval systems involves the creation of potential user needs for which systems try to find relevant documents. The difficulty of these topics dif...
The current Information Retrieval Systems return hundreds or thousands of documents in response to a query. Users consider only the first 20 or 30, but documents are often sorted a...
David Bueno, Ricardo Conejo, Amos David, Cristina ...
General information retrieval systems are designed to serve all users without considering individual needs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to personalized search. It c...
Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wa...
We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...