• OUC's participation in the 2010 INEX Book Track 

      Preminger, Michael; Nordlie, Ragnar (Lecture Notes in Computer Science = Lecture notes in artificial intelligence;6932, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      In this article we describe the Oslo University College’s participation in the INEX 2010 Book track. The OUC has submitted retrieval results for the “prove it” task with traditional relevance detection combined with some ...
    • OUC's Participation in the 2011 INEX Book Track 

      Preminger, Michael; Nordlie, Ragnar (Lecture Notes in Computer Science = Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure;7424, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      In this article we describe the Oslo University College’s participation in the INEX 2011 Book track. In 2010, the OUC submitted retrieval results for the “Prove It” task with traditional relevance detection combined with ...
    • Overview of the INEX 2008 Interactive Track 

      Pharo, Nils; Nordlie, Ragnar; Fachry, Khairun Nisa (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)
      This paper presents the organization of the INEX 2008 interactive track. In this year’s iTrack we aimed at exploring the value of element retrieval for two different task types, fact-finding and research tasks. Two research ...
    • Overview of the INEX 2009 Interactive Track 

      Pharo, Nils; Nordlie, Ragnar; Fuhr, Norbert; Beckers, Thomas; Fachry, Khairun Nisa (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;6203, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      In the paper we present the organization of the INEX 2009 interactive track. For the 2009 experiments the iTrack has gathered data on user search behavior in a collection consisting of book metadata taken from the online ...
    • Overview of the INEX 2010 Interactive Track 

      Pharo, Nils; Beckers, Thomas; Nordlie, Ragnar; Fuhr, Norbert (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;6932, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      In the paper we present the organization of the INEX 2010 interactive track. For the 2010 experiments the iTrack has gathered data on user search behavior in a collection consisting of book metadata taken from the online ...
    • Researchers' attitude to using institutional repositories : a case study of the Oslo University Institutional Repository (DUO) 

      Alemayehu, Muluken Wubayehu (Master thesis, 2010)
      Institutional Repositories (IRs) have been considered one of the disseminating and preserving method for scholarly research publications. However, the success of IR is dependent on the contribution of researchers and faculty ...
    • Scholars and Institutional Repositories : Perceptions of Academic Authors towards Self -Archiving their Scholarly Works in the Bergen Open Research Archive 

      Hulela, Barulaganye Nthula (Master thesis, 2010)
      This study describes the perceptions of academic authors towards self-archiving; specifically exploring the motivations and deterrence factors influencing decisions to deposit their works in an institutional repository ...
    • Search Transition as a Measure of Effort in Information Retrieval Interaction 

      Nordlie, Ragnar; Pharo, Nils (Proceedings of the ASIS annual meeting;(50), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      In this article we introduce the concept of search transitions as a unit for measuring the effort invested by searchers in information retrieval interaction. The concept is discussed and compared to traditional measures ...
    • Seven years of INEX interactive retrieval experiments – lessons and challenges 

      Nordlie, Ragnar; Pharo, Nils (Lecture Notes in Computer Science = Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence;(7488), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      This paper summarizes a major effort in interactive search investigation, the INEX i-track, a collective effort run over a seven-year period. We present the experimental conditions, report some of the findings of the ...
    • Søk etter relevante deler i tekster med blandet innhold: gjenfinningsforsøk med metadata fra NRKs radioprogram "Ukeslutt" 

      Storchi, Elisa (Master thesis, 2014)
      I denne oppgaven har jeg evaluert gjenfinningen av relevante deler i tekster med blandet innhold i ett gjenfinningssystem. Jeg har utført et gjenfinningsforsøk med metadata fra NRKs radioprogram "Ukeslutt". Programmene ...
    • to_be_classified: A Facet Analysis of a Folksonomy 

      Conradi, Elise (Master thesis, 2009)
      This research examines Ranganathan’s postulational approach to facet analysis with the intention of manually inducing a faceted classification ontology from a folksonomy. Folksonomies are viewed as a source to a wealth of ...
    • The use of Wikipedia in secondary level education in an academic curriculum in Nepalese context 

      Gautam, Kiran (Master thesis, 2015)
      Information and knowledge are the key components to be success in this 21st century. For this each and every one is searching or seeking information to make more knowledgeable. The use of Wikipedia pages as an academic ...
    • Using ‘search transitions’ to study searchers investment of effort: experiences with client and server side logging 

      Pharo, Nils; Nordlie, Ragnar (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;8201, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      We are investigating the value of using the concept ‘search transition’ for studying effort invested in information search processes. In this paper we present findings from a comparative study of data collected from client ...