Browsing Theses by Subject "Information retrieval"
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Misinformation Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)This work introduces the task of misinformation retrieval, identifying all documents containing misinformation for a given topic, and proposes a pipeline for misinformation retrieval on tweets. As part of the work, I curated ... -
Multi-Agent User-Centric Specialization and Collaboration for Information Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-19)The amount of information on the World Wide Web (WWW) is rapidly growing in pace and topic diversity. This has made it increasingly difficult, and often frustrating, for information seekers to retrieve the content they are ... -
Novelty and Diversity in Retrieval Evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-11)Queries submitted to search engines rarely provide a complete and precise description of a user's information need. Most queries are ambiguous to some extent, having multiple interpretations. For example, the seemingly ... -
Similarity and Diversity in Information Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)Inter-document similarity is used for clustering, classification, and other purposes within information retrieval. In this thesis, we investigate several aspects of document similarity. In particular, we investigate the ...