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SUMMARY
Information Retrieval (IR) on theWorld WideWeb functions very effectively and efficiently. These search tools are specifically designed as multi-purpose tools, applicable in as wide an array of situations as possible. Nevertheless, there are areas for which these tools are conceived too broadly to be useful: health or biomedical information, intellectual property information, social science publications, blogs, press photographs, etc. A search in one of these domains is called a domain-specific search. Such a search is specific in terms of the collection of documents indexed, search refinements arising from the domain characteristics, domain coverage specificity, types of multimodal data (e.g. images, chemical formulae) present in the documents, and the end users and their tasks. Even though many domains have similar characteristics and challenges, there is as yet no general framework for developing domain-specific search solutions, and no way of characterising a domain to allow the best approach or tools to be chosen.
With this in mind, ADmIRE seeks to develop domain-specific IR methodologies. The project team seeks to put together all of this experimental information, organising it to make use of it in a specific domain, which is a very challenging and yet absolutely necessary task for the development of the field of IR.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing a framework consisting of a classification scheme for domain-specific problems and a protocol giving the optimal evidence-based approach to solving the problem based on the characterisation.
- Conducting a systematic review of the relevant literature and designing semi-automated tools for IR researchers to create systematic reviews.
- Developing guidelines for future IR evaluation campaigns and publications which will allow easier and more effective use of the evaluation results to guide decisions in domain-specific search system design
- Producing a framework for component-based evaluation based on the workflow paradigm
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LINK: https://tiss.tuwien.ac.at/research/project.xhtml?projectId=290410
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