User modeling for information retrieval has mostly been studied to improve the effectiveness of information access in centralized repositories. In this paper we explore user model...
Empowering users to access databases using simple keywords can relieve the users from the steep learning curve of mastering a structured query language and understanding complex a...
In the experiment described in this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a document-independent technique for eliciting additional information from searchers about their inf...
In this article, we focus our efforts (i) on the study of how to automatically extract and exploit visual concepts and (ii) on fast visual diversity. First, in the Visual Concept D...
Sabrina Tollari, Marcin Detyniecki, Ali Fakeri-Tab...
In this paper, we present the main features of a text mining based search engine for the UK Educational Evidence Portal available at the UK National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM...
Sophia Ananiadou, John McNaught, James Thomas, Mar...