It has been claimed that topic metadata can be used to improve the accuracy of text searches. Here, we test this claim by examining the contribution of metadata to effective search...
With our participation in TREC2004, we test Terrier, a modular and scalable Information Retrieval framework, in three tracks. For the mixed query task of the Web track, we employ ...
The Multimedia and Information Systems group at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University participated in the Expert Search and Document Search tasks of the Enterprise ...
The University College London Information Retrieval Group participated in both the Expert Search and Document Search tasks in the TREC2008 Enterprise Track. We used a generic two-...
This paper illustrates a ranking scheme which combines fulltext, anchor text and URL structure for homepage finding in hybrid peer-to-peer networks. The experimental results show...