XML is increasingly becoming the format of choice for information exchange on the Internet. As this trend grows, one can expect that documents (or collections thereof) may get qui...
Premkumar T. Devanbu, Michael Gertz, April Kwong, ...
We present a query-driven algorithm for the distributed indexing of large document collections within structured P2P networks. To cope with bandwidth consumption that has been ide...
Gleb Skobeltsyn, Toan Luu, Ivana Podnar Zarko, Mar...
Information retrieval is the selection of documents relevant to a query. Inverted index is the conventional way to store the index of the collection. Because of the large amounts ...
The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...