At CLEF 2009 the University of Hildesheim focused on the main task of the Intellectual Property Track which aims at finding prior art for a specified patent [cf. Information Retri...
Daniela Becks, Christa Womser-Hacker, Thomas Mandl...
In this paper we examine user queries with respect to diversity: providing a mix of results across different interpretations. Using two query log analysis techniques (click entrop...
Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson, Murad Abouammoh, Serg...
Static index pruning techniques aim at removing from the posting lists of an inverted file the references to documents which are likely to be not relevant for answering user querie...
A taxonomy organizes concepts or topics in a hierarchical structure and can be created manually or via automated systems. A major drawback of taxonomies is that they require users...
Xiaoguang Qi, Dawei Yin, Zhenzhen Xue, Brian D. Da...
Throughout many of the different types of Web searches people perform, the primary tasks are to first craft a query that effectively captures their information needs, and then eva...