Abstract. Use of document genre in information retrieval systems has the potential to improve the task-appropriateness of results. However, genre classification remains a challengi...
Luanne Freund, Charles L. A. Clarke, Elaine G. Tom...
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
This paper explores the concept of early discard for interactive search of unindexed data. Processing data inside storage devices using downloaded searchlet code enables Diamond t...
Larry Huston, Rahul Sukthankar, Rajiv Wickremesing...
A huge amount of data and metadata emerges from Web 2.0 applications which have transformed the Web to a mass social interaction and collaboration medium. Collaborative Tagging Sy...
Eirini Giannakidou, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Athena V...
Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...