Purpose – To present a method for creating a comparable document collection from two document collections in different languages. Design/methodology/approach – The best query keys were extracted from a Finnish source collection (articles of the newspaper Aamulehti ) with the relative average...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to explore the possibility of retrieving information with Kohonen self‐organising maps, which are known to be effective to group objects according to their similarity or dissimilarity. Design/methodology/approach – After conventional preprocessing, such...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate information retrieval (IR) in the context of authentic work tasks (WTs), as compared to traditional experimental IR study designs. Design/methodology/approach The participants were 22 professionals working in municipal administration,...