: In modern information systems the dominant retrieval paradigms have shifted from exact matching towards retrieving a list of the most relevant objects. This is because users usua...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
Information retrieval system evaluation is complicated by the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. Large manually-built directories on the web open the door to new eval...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
We research whether the inclusion of information about an information user's social environment and his position in the social network of his peers leads to an improval in sea...
Sebastian Marius Kirsch, Melanie Gnasa, Armin B. C...
Forty-eight years ago Maron and Kuhns published their paper, ``On Relevance, Probabilistic Indexing and Information Retrieval" (1960). This was the first paper to present a p...
Temporal expressions, such as between 1992 and 2000, are frequent across many kinds of documents. Text retrieval, though, treats them as common terms, thus ignoring their inherent...
Irem Arikan, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Klaus Berberich