Synchronous systems can immediately react to the inputs of their environment which may lead to so-called causality cycles between actions and their trigger conditions. Systems wit...
: This paper presents the results of our team in the Genomics and Blog tracks in TREC 2007. We used the language model implementation provided by Indri for both tracks. For the BLO...
Miguel E. Ruiz, Ying Sun, Jianqiang Wang, Hongfang...
An ordinal fuzzy linguistic Information Retrieval System (IRS) based on a multi-level weighting scheme to represent the user queries, in a more flexible way, is proposed. The IRS a...
Search engine switching describes the voluntarily transition from one Web search engine to another. In this paper we present a study of search engine switching behavior that combi...
Stereotypes and clustering are some techniques for creating user models from user behavior. Yet, they possess important risks as users actions could be misinterpreted or users coul...