TREC-2 Proceedings of the second conference on Text retrieval conference
A language modeling approach to information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Exploiting redundancy in question answering
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Model-based feedback in the language modeling approach to information retrieval
Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Implementation of the SMART Information Retrieval System
Implementation of the SMART Information Retrieval System
Overview of the Reliable Information Access Workshop
Information Retrieval
Ad hoc IR: not much room for improvement
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Query-Performance Prediction Using Minimal Relevance Feedback
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
Detecting verbose queries and improving information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Observations from a unique investigation of failure analysis of Information Retrieval research engines held in 2003 are presented. The Reliable Information Access Workshop invited seven leading IR research groups to supply both their systems and their experts to an effort to analyze why their systems fail on some topics and whether the failures are due to system flaws, approach flaws, or the topic itself. There were surprising results from this cross-system failure analysis. One is that despite systems retrieving very different documents, the major cause of failure for any particular topic was almost always the same across all systems. Another is that relationships between aspects of a topic are not especially important for state-of-the-art systems; the systems are failing at a much more basic level where the top-retrieved documents are not reflecting some aspect at all. The investigatory framework and the lessons learned can serve as a model for needed future research in this area.