This paper presents a study in which four law students and four Library and Information Science (LIS) students judged independently the relevance of documents selected from the e-discovery test collections of the Text REtrieval Conference. The results were compared with the official relevance ground truth and among participants. Given the same task guidelines and minimal training, on average th...

In an article as relevant now when it was written, Aleida Assmann (1996: 94) asks: “How in a world of divided creeds is one to find out which the true belief?” She draws from Gotthold Lessing's character Nathan Wise say (ibid.: 95): There are two possible solutions problem, that fundamentalist and sage. The overcomes problem multiplicity by return One. Truth can be restored only if rivals elimi...

In the third year of the Link the Wiki track, anchor-to-BEP link discovery has been the focus besides the file-to-file link discovery. There are two collections, Wikipedia and Te Ara, used in 2009 for respective tasks. 5000 topics were randomly selected for the file-to-file task and 33 anchor-to-BEP topics were nominated by the participants. The Te Ara corpus is used for the first time and the ...