Information retrieval (IR) functions serve a critical role in many digital library systems. There are numerous mature IR algorithms that have been implemented and it will be a was...
A lot of work has been done on extracting the model of web user behavior. Most of them target server-side logs that cannot track user behavior outside of the server. Recently, a no...
Shingo Otsuka, Masashi Toyoda, Jun Hirai, Masaru K...
The distributed information technologies collectively known as Web services recently have demonstrated powerful capabilities for scalable interoperation of heterogeneous software a...
J. Mark Pullen, Ryan Brunton, Donald P. Brutzman, ...
A novel interface system for accessing geospatial data (GeoMIP) has been developed that realizes a user-centered multimodal speech/gesture interface for addressing some of the cri...
Future MIR systems will be of great use and pleasure for potential users. If researchers have a clear picture about their “customers” in mind they can aim at building and eval...