Due to the lack of in-built tools to navigate the web, people have to use external solutions to find information. The most popular of these are search engines and web directories....
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
A common search problem in the World Wide Web concerns finding information if it is not known when the sources of information appear and how long sources will be available on the ...
Dirk Kukulenz, Nils Hoeller, Sven Groppe, Volker L...
Search engine quality is impacted by two factors: the quality of the ranking/matching algorithm used and the freshness of the search engine’s index, which maintains a “snapsho...
Jie Xu, Qinglan Li, Huiming Qu, Alexandros Labrini...
In recent years, language resources acquired from the Web are released, and these data improve the performance of applications in several NLP tasks. Although the language resource...