Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have been recently proposed for providing search and information retrieval facilities over distributed data sources, including web data. Terms and their ...
Robert Neumayer, Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil N&os...
Ambiguous queries constitute a significant fraction of search instances and pose real challenges to web search engines. With current approaches the top results for these queries ...
This paper investigates whether Web comments are of descriptive nature, that is, whether the combined text of a set of comments is similar in topic to the commented object. If so,...
Collections are a fundamental tool for reproducible evaluation of information retrieval techniques. We describe a new method for distributing the document lengths and term counts ...
The aim of the Dublin City University’s participation in the CLEF 2005 ImageCLEF St Andrew’s Collection task was to explore an alternative approach to exploiting text annotatio...