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Challenges in information retrieval and language modeling

James Allan, David J. Harper, Djoerd Hiemstra, Thomas Hofmann, Eduard Hovy, Wessel Kraaij, John Lafferty, Victor Lavrenko, David Lewis, Liz Liddy, R. Manmatha, Jay Aslam (+24 others)
2003 SIGIR Forum  

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Introduction Information retrieval (IR) research has reached a point where it is appropriate to assess progress and to define a research agenda for the next five to ten years. This report summarizes a discussion of IR research challenges that took place at a recent workshop. The attendees of the workshop considered information retrieval research in a range of areas chosen to give broad coverage of topic areas that engage information retrieval researchers. Those areas are retrieval models,
more » ... lingual retrieval Web search, user modeling, filtering, topic detection and tracking, classification, summarization, question answering, metasearch, distributed retrieval multimedia retrieval information extraction, as well as testbed requirements for future work. The potential use of language modeling techniques in these areas was also discussed. The workshop identified major challenges within each of those areas. The following are recurring themes that ran throughout: • User and context sensitive retrieval • Multi-lingual and multi-media issues • Better target tasks • lmproved objective evaluations • Substantially more labeled data • Greater variety of data sources • Improved formal models Contextual retrieval and global information access were identified as particularly important long-term challenges.
doi:10.1145/945546.945549 fatcat:h6xsh2uzwzdfdi4g4ypw6ximrq
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James Allan, David J. Harper, Djoerd Hiemstra, Thomas Hofmann, Eduard Hovy, Wessel Kraaij, John Lafferty, Victor Lavrenko, David Lewis, Liz Liddy, R. Manmatha, Jay Aslam, Andrew McCallum, Jay Ponte, John Prager, Dragomir Radev, Philip Resnik, Stephen Robertson, Roni Rosenfeld, Salim Roukos, Mark Sanderson, Rich Schwartz, Nicholas Belkin, Amit Singhal, Alan Smeaton, Howard Turtle, Ellen Voorhees, Ralph Weischedel, Jinxi Xu, ChengXiang Zhai, Chris Buckley, Jamie Callan, Bruce Croft, Sue Dumais, Norbert Fuhr, Donna Harman. "Challenges in information retrieval and language modeling." SIGIR Forum 37.1 (2003) 31-47