In this paper we describe an Information Retrieval problem called collection fusion. The collection fusion problem is to maximize the number of relevant natural language documents...
Geoffrey G. Towell, Ellen M. Voorhees, Narendra Ku...
Research and development of information access technology for scanned paper documents has been hampered by the lack of public test collections of realistic scope and complexity. A...
David D. Lewis, Gady Agam, Shlomo Argamon, Ophir F...
— Knowledge about herbal medicine can be contributed from experts in several cultures. With the conventional techniques, it is hard to find the way which the experts can build a ...
Abstract. Information nowadays is a capital for any organization intending to be reactive and aware of its environment. Unfortunately most modern organizations overdose on informat...
Guillaume Cabanac, Max Chevalier, Claude Chrisment...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...