We report on the effectiveness of language models for personalization of retrieval results based on a searcher’s preference for document genre. In principle, such preferences ca...
Gheorghe Muresan, Catherine L. Smith, Michael Cole...
- The use of a PDA with ad-hoc built-in information retrieval functionalities can help people in visiting an historical site in a natural manner instead of traditional audio/visual...
Antonella Santangelo, Agnese Augello, Antonio Gent...
Abstract. This paper describes the design of the first large-scale IR test collection built for the Czech language. The creation of this collection also happens to be very challen...
Pavel Ircing, Pavel Pecina, Douglas W. Oard, Jianq...
The Web Mashup Scripting Language (WMSL) enables an enduser ("you") working from his browser, e.g. not needing any other infrastructure, to quickly write mashups that in...
Marwan Sabbouh, Jeff Higginson, Salim Semy, Danny ...
Most image retrieval systems only allow a fragment of text or an example image as a query. Most users have more complex information needs that are not easily expressed in either of...