Every time a user engaged in work reads or writes, the user spontaneously generates new information needs: to understand the text he or she is reading or to supply more substance ...
David A. Evans, Gregory Grefenstette, Yan Qu, Jame...
We explore several different document representation models and two query expansion models for the task of recommending blogs to a user in response to a query. Blog relevance rank...
Jaime Arguello, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jamie Callan, J...
This paper is a personal take on the history of evaluation experiments in information retrieval. It describes some of the early experiments that were formative in our understandin...
This paper describes an approach for application specific conflict prevention based on model-driven refinement of policies prior to deployment. Central to the approach is an algori...
Effective information retrieval is important not only for its own sake but also for improving our understanding and allowing us to evolve our information into knowledge and wisdom...