This paper summarises activities from the iCLEF 2008 task. In an attempt to encourage greater participation in user-orientated experiments, a new task was organised based on users...
Abstract. High quality context information plays a vital role in adapting a system to the rapidly changing situations. However, the diversity of the sources of context information ...
In this paper we examine the effects of noise when creating a real-world weblog corpus for information retrieval. We focus on the DiffPost (Lee et al. 2008) approach to noise remo...
James Lanagan, Paul Ferguson, Neil O'Hare, Alan F....
We describe the objectives and organization of the CLEF 2006 ad hoc track and discuss the main characteristics of the tasks offered to test monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual...
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Thomas Mand...
To evaluate the diversity of search results, test collections have been developed that identify multiple intents for each query. Intents are the different meanings or facets that...