This volume celebrates the twentieth anniversary of CLEF - the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for the first ten years, and the Conference and Labs of the Evalu

This open access book summarizes the first two decades of the NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research (NTCIR). NTCIR is a series of evaluatio

Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2019, held in Lugano, Switzerland, in Septembe

Provides an overview and instruction on the evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems with users.