Abstract. Collecting relevance judgments (qrels) is an especially challenging part of building an information retrieval test collection. This paper presents a novel method for crea...
Selecting the optimal number of features in a classifier ensemble normally requires a validation set or cross-validation techniques. In this paper, feature ranking is combined with...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer architectures are a potentially powerful model for developing large-scale networks of text-based digital libraries, but peer-to-peer networks have so far pro...
Syntactic information potentially plays a much more important role in question answering than it does in information retrieval. Although many people have used syntactic evidence i...
Abstract This paper presents a method for combining query-relevance with information-novelty in the context of text retrieval and summarization. The Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR...