To better serve users’ information needs without requiring comprehensive queries from users, a simple yet effective technique is to explore the preferences of users. Since these...
Arthur H. van Bunningen, Maarten M. Fokkinga, Pete...
In this paper we will briefly describe the approaches taken by Berkeley for the main GeoCLEF 2007 tasks (Mono and Bilingual retrieval). This year we used only a single system in ...
Information flows in a network where individuals influence each other. The diffusion rate captures how efficiently the information can diffuse among the users in the network. We p...
We address a specific enterprise document search scenario, where the information need is expressed in an elaborate manner. In our scenario, information needs are expressed using a...
Krisztian Balog, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke
Improving the precision of information retrieval has been a challenging issue on Chinese Web. As exemplified by Chinese recipes on the Web, it is not easy/natural for people to us...