In this paper, we provide an overview of the NTCIR IMine task, which is a core task of NTCIR-11 and also a succeeding work of INTENT@NTCIR-9 and INTENT2@NTCIR-10 tasks. IMine is composed of a subtopic mining (SM) task, a document ranking (DR) task and a TaskMine (TM) pilot task. 21 groups from Canada, China, Germany, France, Japan, Korea, Spain, UK and United States registered to the task, whic...

This paper describes our contribution to the English Entrance Exams task of CLEF 2015, which requires participating systems to automatically solve multiple choice reading comprehension tasks. We use a combination of text segmentation and different similarity measures with the aim of exploiting two observed aspects of tests: 1) the often linear relationship between reading text and test question...

This is an overview of the NTCIR-9 INTENT task, which comprises the Subtopic Mining and the Document Ranking subtasks. The INTENT task attracted participating teams from seven different countries/regions – 16 teams for Subtopic Mining and 8 teams for Document Ranking. The Subtopic Mining subtask received 42 Chinese runs and 14 Japanese runs; the Document Ranking subtask received 24 Chinese runs...

In this paper, we address the problem of ranking clinical documents using centrality based approach. We model the documents to be ranked as nodes in a graph and place edges between documents based on their similarity. Given a query, we compute similarity of the query with respect to every document in the graph. Based on these similarity values, documents are ranked for a given query. Initially,...

Due to the opportunities provided by the Internet, people are taking advantage of e-learning courses and during the last few years enormous research efforts have been dedicated to the development of e-learning systems. So far, many e-learning systems are proposed and used practically. However, in these systems the e-learning completion rate is low. One of the reasons is the low study desire and...

European Journal of Information Systems (2006) 15, 1–3. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000609 Sixes This is the first of six issues for this volume/year of the European Journal of Information Systems. We have increased the number of issues because the continuing success of the journal enables us to offer our readers increases in both the quality and number of papers. The journal’s improving success...

The aim of this study was to use journal metrics to confirm that the Journal of Exercise Rehabilitation has been promoted to the international level after changing its language to English-only in April 2013. Journal metrics, including the number of articles per year, countries of authors, countries of the editorial board members, impact factor, total citations, and the Hirsch index, were counte...

The Korean Journal of Urology began to be published exclusively in English in 2010 and is indexed in PubMed Central/PubMed. This study analyzed a variety of citation indicators of the Korean Journal of Urology before and after 2010 to clarify the present position of the journal among the urology category journals. The impact factor, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), impact index, Z-impact factor (ZIF...