Objective Little research has been done on the user-centered document ranking approach, especially in a crowdsourcing chart review environment. As the starting point of designing and implementing the next generation of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) search engines, a systematic user study is...

The leading strategy for analyzing unstructured data uses two steps. First, latent variables of economic interest are estimated with an upstream information retrieval model. Second, the estimates are treated as "data" in a downstream econometric model. We establish theoretical arguments for why...

The leading strategy for analyzing unstructured data uses two steps. First, latent variables of economic interest are estimated with an upstream information retrieval model. Second, the estimates are treated as "data" in a downstream econometric model. We establish theoretical arguments for why...

Die wissenschaftsgeleitete Politik- und Gesellschaftsberatung hat in den letzten Jahren enorm an Bedeutung gewonnen und ist fortwährend vielfältiger geworden. Politische Entscheidungen basieren immer häufiger auf empirischen Forschungsergebnissen und Gutachten. Allerdings kann die Suche nach...

Search engines play a central role in online content discoverability, acting as a major gateway for users to access online information. As part of their activities, they may drive traffic towards websites that offer illegal goods and services, such as counterfeit products or pirated content....

This special issue features the selected works of authors who have presented papers at the 2022 iteration of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) in Cologne, Germany. The motto of the conference was “Bridging Worlds” and was run as a fully hybrid event. Ten papers covering all...

With the booming of LLM technologies (e.g., ChatGPT), people's goals and behaviors in information search have been reshaped significantly. This paper attempts to conceptually discuss how LLM technologies might revolutionize these important aspects in information search and provides a...