This paper provides a first account of1 the Building the Internet Workforce project. A number of further papers are planned. An outline of the project’s progress and outcomes is...
While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
Olivier Chapelle, Donald Metlzer, Ya Zhang, Pierre...
Users increasingly rely on their mobile devices to search local entities, typically businesses, while on the go. Even though recent work has recognized that the ranking signals in...
Social Network Sites can be seen as very large information repositories containing millions of text messages usually organized into complex networks involving users interacting wit...
In TREC 2007 Blog Track, we developed a three-step algorithm for the opinion retrieval task. An information retrieval step retrieves the query-relevant documents. A following opin...