Category Archives: Publications

Session Search

Posted on September 1, 2016 by ekanoulas

Information Retrieval (IR) research has traditionally focused on serving the best results for a single query— so-called ad hoc retrieval. However, users typically search iteratively, refining and reformulating their queries during a session. A key challenge in the study of … Continue reading →

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A Short Survey on Search Evaluation

Posted on August 25, 2016 by ekanoulas

Evaluation has always been the cornerstone of scientific development. Scientists come up with hypotheses (models) to explain physical phenomena, and validate these models by comparing their output to observations in nature. A scientific field consists then merely by a collection … Continue reading →

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