We all spend time every day looking for information in our email, yet we know little about this refinding process. Some users expend considerable preparatory effort creating compl...
Steve Whittaker, Tara Matthews, Julian A. Cerruti,...
Learning to rank from relevance judgment is an active research area. Itemwise score regression, pairwise preference satisfaction, and listwise structured learning are the major te...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Rajiv Khanna, Uma Sawant, Chir...
— This paper presents the prototype of an expert peering system for information exchange in the knowledge society. Our system realizes an intelligent, real-time search engine for...
Christian Bauckhage, Tansu Alpcan, Sachin Agarwal,...
We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
Users’ search needs are often represented by words and images are retrieved according to such textual queries. Annotation words assigned to the stored images are most useful to ...