This is the first year that the Dalhousie University participated in TREC. We submitted three runs for the QA track. Our evaluation results are generally below the median (with on...
We present an approach for answering Entity Retrieval queries using click-through information in query log data from a commercial Web search engine. We compare results using click...
Bodo Billerbeck, Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Fi...
The User-over-Ranking hypothesis states that rather the user herself than a web search engine’s ranking algorithm can help to improve retrieval performance. The means are longer ...
We are experiencing a new Social Web, where people share, communicate, commiserate, and conflict with each other. As evidenced by systems like Wikipedia, twitter, and delicious.co...
Abstract-- Mapping mashups are emerging Web 2.0 applications in which data objects such as blogs, photos and videos from different sources are combined and marked in a map using AP...
Anthony K. H. Tung, Beng Chin Ooi, Dongxiang Zhang