The prevailing model for digital preservation is that archives should be similar to a “fortress”: a large, protective infrastructure built to defend a relatively small collect...
Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...
As user demands become increasingly sophisticated, search engines today are competing in more than just returning document results from the Web. One area of competition is providi...
Precision-oriented search results such as those typically returned by the major search engines are vulnerable to issues of polysemy. When the same term refers to different things,...
Though children frequently use web search engines to learn, interact, and be entertained, modern web search engines are poorly suited to children's needs, requiring relativel...