Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
An effective graphic interface is a key tool to improve the fruition of the results retrieved by an Information Retrieval (IR) system. In this work, we describe a two-dimensional...
Lorenzo De Stefani, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Giorg...
Atomic blocks allow programmers to delimit sections of code as ‘atomic’, leaving the language’s implementation to enforce atomicity. Existing work has shown how to implement...
Timothy L. Harris, Mark Plesko, Avraham Shinnar, D...
Learning a foreign language is a long, error-prone process, and much of a learner’s time is effectively spent studying vocabulary. Many errors occur because words are only partl...
In this paper, we study search bot traffic from search engine query logs at a large scale. Although bots that generate search traffic aggressively can be easily detected, a large ...