Information retrieval is an empirical science; the field cannot move forward unless there are means of evaluating the innovations devised by researchers. However the methodologies...
Mark Sanderson, Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro, Ju...
Abstract. The Agent-Community-based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (ACP2P) method[1],[2] uses agent communities to manage and look up information of interest tousers. An agent ...
We propose to use MapReduce to quickly test new retrieval approaches on a cluster of machines by sequentially scanning all documents. We present a small case study in which we use ...
We have been developing new relevance feedback algorithms for Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) that allow the user to achieve more flexible query. In conjunction with the new...
Munehiro Nakazato, Charlie K. Dagli, Thomas S. Hua...
We consider the problem of organizing and browsing the top ranked portion of the documents returned by an information retrieval system. We study the effectiveness of a document o...