In this paper we propose a novel document retrieval model in which text queries are augmented with multi-dimensional taxonomy restrictions. These restrictions may be relaxed at a ...
Marcus Fontoura, Vanja Josifovski, Ravi Kumar, Chr...
A scalable object location service can enable users to search for various objects in an environment where many small, networked devices are attached to objects. We investigate two...
Lucene is an increasingly popular open source search library. However, our experiments of search quality for TREC data and evaluations for out-of-the-box Lucene indicated inferior...
The increasing availability of GPS-enabled devices is changing the way people interact with the Web, and brings us a large amount of GPS trajectories representing people's lo...
In contrast to traditional document retrieval, a web page as a whole is not a good information unit to search because it often contains multiple topics and a lot of irrelevant inf...