We introduce in this paper the family of information-based models for ad hoc information retrieval. These models draw their inspiration from a long-standing hypothesis in IR, name...
The TREC Blog track aims to explore information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere, by building reusable test collections for blog-related search tasks. Since, its advent in TRE...
Craig Macdonald, Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Iadh Ounis,...
We propose three heuristics to determine the country of origin of a person or institution via text-based IE from the Web. We evaluate all methods on a collection of music artists ...
Markus Schedl, Klaus Seyerlehner, Dominik Schnitze...
The Fourth International Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse (PAN 10) was held in conjunction with the 2010 Conference on Multilingual and Mu...
Benno Stein, Martin Potthast, Paolo Rosso, Alberto...
The ability of fast similarity search at large scale is of great importance to many Information Retrieval (IR) applications. A promising way to accelerate similarity search is sem...