In our entry to the new HARD track, we have investigated two methods of interactively refining user search formulations. One method consists of asking the user to select a number ...
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 ...
This paper describes our participation in GeoCLEF. Being different from the traditional information retrieval, we focus more on the query expansion instead of document ranking. We ...
We examine whether the use of query operators changes the documents retrieved by three popular Web search engines. One hundred queries containing query operators were selected fro...
This paper claims that Belief Revision can be seen as a theoretical framework for document ranking in Extended Boolean Models. For a model of Information Retrieval based on propos...