This paper introduces the Patent Mining Task of the Seventh NTCIR Workshop and the test collections produced in this task. The task's goal was the classification of research ...
The second workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2008) was held in Singapore on July 24, 2008 in conjunction with the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR C...
Abstract. This paper presents a user study that evaluated the effectiveness of an aggregated search interface in the context of non-navigational search tasks. An experimental syst...
A half-day single track workshop is designed to gather academic researchers and industrial practitioners at to share ideas and knowledge of know-how, and to discuss all relevant i...
During a three-day workshop in February 2012, 45 Information Retrieval researchers met to discuss long-range challenges and opportunities within the field. The result of the works...
James Allan, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Mark...