Queries submitted to a retrieval system are often ambiguous. In such a situation, a sensible strategy is to diversify the ranking of results to be retrieved, in the hope that users...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, I...
An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in Web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. To save the user's effort in manually exploring eac...
: The explosive growth of the World Wide Web, and the resulting information overload, has led to a miniexplosion in World Wide Web search engines. This mini-explosion, in turn, led...
Our cultural heritage, as preserved in libraries, archives and museums, is made up of documents written many centuries ago. Largescale digitization initiatives make these documents...
Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen, Frans Adriaans, Maarten...
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...