Digital Libraries have gained tremendous interest with numerous research projects addressing the wealth of challenges in this field. While computational intelligence systems are ...
We consider the problem of identifying the consensus ranking for the results of a query, given preferences among those results from a set of individual users. Once consensus ranki...
Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Anton M...
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
In this paper, we describe our work-in-progress with collaborative understanding of distributed ontologies in a multiagent framework. As reported earlier, the objective of this fr...
Search result diversification is a natural approach for tackling ambiguous queries. Nevertheless, not all queries are equally ambiguous, and hence different queries could bene...