Introduction to the special issue on evaluating interactive information retrieval systems

Time and information retrieval: Introduction to the special issue

With the rapid growth of digitised document resources, both on and off the web, and increased variety in types of document collections, future information systems will face growing difficulties in providing reliable, useful, and timely results. Time is a ubiquitous factor at many stages in the information-seeking process, with users having temporally-relevant information needs, and collections ...

Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems

Neste artigo é proposta uma extensa metodologia para avaliar a recuperação da informação interativa. A proposta baseia-se em princípios fundamentais apresentados na literatura de avaliação para definir os objetivos do sistema ou ferramenta a ser avaliado, e inferir as medidas e os critérios de sucesso na consecução dos objetivos. Propõe-se que, ao avaliar uma ferramenta de pesquisa, seja analis...

Special issue on interactive question answering: Introduction

In this introduction, we present our overview of Interactive Question Answering (IQA). We contextualize IQA in the wider field of Question Answering, and establish connections to research in Information Retrieval and Dialogue Systems. We highlight the development of QA as a field, and identify challenges in the present research paradigm for which IQA is a potential solution. Finally, we present...

Evaluating exploratory search systems: Introduction to special topic issue of information processing and management

Introduction to the Special Issue on Geographies of Information Society

In 1997 the National Science Foundation launched the Varenius Project with the aim of advancing geographic information science (Goodchild et al., 1999). Varenius incorporated three components: computational, cognitive, and societal. In a review paper titled “Geographies of Information Society,” Sheppard et al. (1999) explored the third (societal) component with the aim of introducing the key re...