Finding biological entities (such as genes or proteins) that satisfy certain conditions from texts is an important and challenging task in biomedical information retrieval and tex...
Abstract. All search happens in a particular context—such as the particular collection of a digital library, its associated search tasks, and its associated users. Information re...
Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user ...
Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...
As XML documents contain both content and structure information, taking advantage of the document structure in the retrieval process can lead to better identify relevant informati...
Karen Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem, Claude Chrismen...