Finding better active learners for faster literature reviews

Z Yu, NA Kraft, T Menzies - Empirical Software Engineering, 2018 - Springer
Literature reviews can be time-consuming and tedious to complete. By cataloging and
refactoring three state-of-the-art active learning techniques from evidence-based medicine …

Engineering quality and reliability in technology-assisted review

GV Cormack, MR Grossman - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
The objective of technology-assisted review (" TAR") is to find as much relevant information
as possible with reasonable effort. Quality is a measure of the extent to which a TAR method …

An online learned CRF model for multi-target tracking

B Yang, R Nevatia - … IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce an online learning approach for multitarget tracking. Detection responses are
gradually associated into tracklets in multiple levels to produce final tracks. Unlike most …

Empirical evaluation of tools for hairy requirements engineering tasks

DM Berry - Empirical Software Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Context A hairy requirements engineering (RE) task involving natural language (NL)
documents is (1) a non-algorithmic task to find all relevant answers in a set of documents …

FAST2: An intelligent assistant for finding relevant papers

Z Yu, T Menzies - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
Literature reviews are essential for any researcher trying to keep up to date with the
burgeoning software engineering literature. Finding relevant papers can be hard due to the …

Scalability of continuous active learning for reliable high-recall text classification

GV Cormack, MR Grossman - Proceedings of the 25th ACM international …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
For finite document collections, continuous active learning ('CAL') has been observed to
achieve high recall with high probability, at a labeling cost asymptotically proportional to the …

HC4: A new suite of test collections for ad hoc CLIR

D Lawrie, J Mayfield, DW Oard, E Yang - European Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
HC4 is a new suite of test collections for ad hoc Cross-Language Information Retrieval
(CLIR), with Common Crawl News documents in Chinese, Persian, and Russian, topics in …

[PDF][PDF] TREC 2016 Total Recall Track Overview.

MR Grossman, GV Cormack, A Roegiest - TREC, 2016 - roegiest.com
The primary purpose of the Total Recall Track is to evaluate, through controlled simulation,
methods designed to achieve very high recall–as close as practicable to 100%–with a …

When to stop reviewing in technology-assisted reviews: Sampling from an adaptive distribution to estimate residual relevant documents

D Li, E Kanoulas - ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2020 - dl.acm.org
Technology-Assisted Reviews (TAR) aim to expedite document reviewing (eg, medical
articles or legal documents) by iteratively incorporating machine learning algorithms and …

Stop** Methods for Technology-assisted Reviews Based on Point Processes

M Stevenson, R Bin-Hezam - ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Technology-assisted Review (TAR), which aims to reduce the effort required to screen
collections of documents for relevance, is used to develop systematic reviews of medical …