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...
We prove that any collection of n discs in which each one intersects at most k others, can be colored with at most O(log3 k) colors so that for each point p in the union of all di...
Evaluating the effectiveness of XML retrieval requires building test collections where the evaluation paradigms are provided according to criteria that take into account structural...
The goal of my dissertation research is to investigate the combination of new evidence sources for improving information retrieval on speech collections. The utility of these evid...
Binary Factor Analysis (BFA, also known as Boolean Factor Analysis) may help with understanding collections of binary data. Since we can take collections of text documents as binar...