Optimising the parameters of ranking functions with respect to standard IR rank-dependent cost functions has eluded satisfactory analytical treatment. We build on recent advances ...
Michael J. Taylor, Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, S...
In this paper, we introduce the notion of ranking robustness, which refers to a property of a ranked list of documents that indicates how stable the ranking is in the presence of ...
The rapid growth of transactional data brought, soon enough, into attention the need of its further exploitation. In this paper, we investigate the problem of securing sensitive k...
We describe Amharic-English cross lingual information retrieval experiments in the adhoc bilingual tracs of the CLEF 2006. The query analysis is supported by morphological analysi...
The Dublin City University participation in the CLEF 2006 CL-SR task concentrated on exploring the combination of the multiple fields associated with the documents. This was based...
Gareth J. F. Jones, Ke Zhang, Adenike M. Lam-Adesi...