In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of a documentindependent technique for eliciting feedback from users about their information problems. We propose that such a techni...
Blog feed search poses different and interesting challenges from traditional ad hoc document retrieval. The units of retrieval, the blogs, are collections of documents, the blog p...
Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, J...
Previous research has taught us that the typical nonprofessional information seeker on the World Wide Web submits very short queries resulting in low-precision results. We show th...
The application of nlp techniques to improve the results of information retrieval is still considered as a controversial issue, whereas nlp techniques in cross-language informatio...
Prior-art search is an important task in patent retrieval. The success of this task relies upon the selection of relevant search queries. Typically terms for prior-art queries are ...