The paper reviews six recent efforts to better understand performance measurements on
information retrieval (IR) systems within the framework of the Text REtrieval Conferences …

Multiple similarity measures for five TREC topic‐document sets from the LDC TREC
Collection Disk 1 are derived from the full text of documents. Each measure on each set is …

The purpose of dissertation is to utilize connotative messages for enhancing image retrieval
and browsing. By adopting semiotics as a theoretical tool, this study explores problems of …

TREC topic specification statements 1–50 are converted to a similarity matrix, scaled, and
plotted. Two close topics and two distant topics are selected from within the topic visual field …

The method described permits visual analysis of information retrieval experiment results in
classic control and treatment group protocols. It is an additional analysis technique for the …

Document representation is important for computer-based text processing. Good document
representations must include at least the most salient concepts of the document. Documents …

Text representation, central to information processing, must be descriptive and
discriminative. Although some of the many techniques to construct document …

The average of two natural numbers always falls between those two numbers. Partitioning a
document set into two non overlapping subsets, the words in the set will appear only in one …

By allowing judgments based on a small number of exemplar documents to be applied to a
larger number of unexamined documents, clustered presentation of search results …