This article compares search effectiveness when using query-based Internet search (via the Google search engine), directory-based search (via Yahoo) and phrasebased query reformul...
Our focus this year was to investigate methods for increasing query length in interactive information searching in the Web context, and to see if these methods led to changes in t...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Colleen Cool, J. Jeng, Amymari...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
A query considered in isolation offers limited information about a searcher's intent. Query context that considers pre-query activity (e.g., previous queries and page visits)...
Finding similar structures from 3-D structure databases of proteins is becoming more and more important issue in the post-genomic molecular biology. To compare 3-D structures of tw...