User browsing information, particularly their non-search related activity, reveals important contextual information on the preferences and the intent of web users. In this paper, ...
Freshness has been increasingly realized by commercial search engines as an important criteria for measuring the quality of search results. However, most information retrieval met...
Information retrieval systems have to deal with uncertain knowledge and query results should reflect this uncertainty in some manner. However, Semantic Web ontologies are based on...
This paper summarizes the work done at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the GeoCLEF 2006 track. The approach presented uses pure IR techniques (indexing of sing...
Miguel E. Ruiz, June M. Abbas, David Mark, Stuart ...
We introduce the problem of domain adaptation for content-based retrieval and propose a domain adaptation method based on relative aggregation points (RAPs). Content-based retriev...