Social networks and collaborative tagging systems are rapidly gaining popularity as primary means for sorting and sharing data: users tag their bookmarks in order to simplify infor...
In this poster we propose a granular approach for presenting web search results. Sentences, taken from the top documents, are used as fine-grained representations of document cont...
A study was conducted, with 180 participants, to evaluate whether individual differences in basic cognitive abilities (i.e., spatial and verbal ability), attitudes towards compute...
Craig Treadaway, James S. Rubinstein, Leo J. Guger...
Web search is the main way for millions of users to access information every day, but we continue to struggle when it comes to finding the right information at the right time. In ...
Barry Smyth, Peter Briggs, Maurice Coyle, Michael ...
We describe and evaluate the performance of a parallel search engine that is able to cope efficiently with concurrent read/write operations. Read operations come in the usual form ...