We describe the objectives and organization of the CLEF 2007 ad hoc track and discuss the main characteristics of the tasks offered to test monolingual and cross-language textual d...
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Thomas Mand...
We describe a method for improving the precision of metasearch results based upon scoring the visual features of documents' surrogate representations. These surrogate scores ...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
As online social networking emerges, there has been increased interest to utilize the underlying social structure as well as the available social information to improve search. In...
Gautam Das, Nick Koudas, Manos Papagelis, Sushruth...
Large volume public comment campaigns and web portals that encourage the public to customize form letters produce many near-duplicate documents, which increases processing and sto...
Recent excitement in the database community surrounding new applications--analytic, scientific, graph, geospatial, etc.--has led to an explosion in research on database storage sy...