1 Tags are an important information source in Web 2.0. They can be used to describe users’ topic preferences as well as the content of items to make personalized recommendations....
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user ...
: This paper presents the design criteria for an Intelligent User Interface to a search engine of an on-line document data base. The Interface is aimed at users that have little or...
Despite its potential to improve search effectiveness, previous research has shown that the uptake of interactive query expansion (IQE) is limited. In this paper, we investigate on...
Nuzhah Gooda Sahib, Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthve...