In classic InformationRetrieval systems a relevant document will not be retrieved in response to a query if the document and query representations do not share at least one term. T...
An expert search system assists users with their "expertise need" by suggesting people with relevant expertise to their query. Most systems work by ranking documents in r...
Traditional information retrieval (IR) systems respond to user queries with ranked lists of relevant documents. The separation of content and structure in XML documents allows indi...
Advances in search technology have meant that search systems can now offer assistance to users beyond simply retrieving a set of documents. For example, search systems are now cap...
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...