With the advent of fast growing Internet and World Wide Web (WWW), more and more companies start the electronic commerce to enhance the business competitiveness. On the other hand...
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
Current search engines crawl the Web, download content, and digest this content locally. For multimedia content, this involves considerable volumes of data. Furthermore, this proc...
We developed and evaluated seven interfaces for integrating semantic category information with Web search results. List interfaces were based on the familiar ranked-listing of sea...
We consider the problem of retrieving multiple documents relevant to the single subtopics of a given web query, termed “full-subtopic retrieval”. To solve this problem we pres...
Andrea Bernardini, Claudio Carpineto, Massimiliano...