Two key assumptions shape the usual view of ranked retrieval:(1) that the searcher can
choose words for their query that might appear in the documents that they wish to see, and …

Evidence-based healthcare integrates the best research evidence with clinical expertise in
order to make decisions based on the best practices available. In this context, the task of …

In this paper, we provide an overview of the seventh annual edition of the CLEF eHealth
evaluation lab. CLEF eHealth 2019 continues our evaluation resource building efforts …

Click logs are valuable resources for a variety of information retrieval (IR) tasks. This
includes query understanding/analysis, as well as learning effective IR models particularly …

In this paper, we provide an overview of the sixth annual edition of the CLEF eHealth
evaluation lab. CLEF eHealth 2018 continues our evaluation resource building efforts …

This paper investigates the significant impact different prompts have on the behaviour of
ChatGPT when used for health information seeking. As people more and more depend on …

This paper introduces TrecTools, a Python library for assisting Information Retrieval (IR)
practitioners with TREC-like campaigns. IR practitioners tasked with activities like building …

In this paper, we provide an overview of the eight annual edition of the Conference and Labs
of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) eHealth evaluation lab. The Conference and Labs of the …

In this paper, we discuss the potential costs that emerge from using a Knowledge Graph
(KG) in entity-oriented search without considering its data veracity. We argue for the need for …

We present a thorough comparison of two principal approaches to Cross-Lingual
Information Retrieval: document translation (DT) and query translation (QT). Our …