Although Web search engines have become information gateways to the Internet, for queries containing technical terms, search results often contain pages that are difficult to be ...
The existence and use of standard test collections in information retrieval experimentation allows results to be compared between research groups and over time. Such comparisons, ...
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Web...
This paper reports work on automated meta-data creation for multimedia content. The approach results in the generation of a conceptual index of the content which may then be searc...
Jan Kuper, Horacio Saggion, Hamish Cunningham, Thi...
Abstract Most ranking algorithms are based on the optimization of some loss functions, such as the pairwise loss. However, these loss functions are often different from the criter...
Indexes are the key technology underpinning efficient text search. A range of algorithms have been developed for fast query evaluation and for index creation, but update algorithm...