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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Focused crawling for both topical relevance and quality of medical information
Subject-specific search facilities on health sites are usually built using manual inclusion and exclusion rules. These can be expensive to maintain and often provide incomplete c...
Thanh Tin Tang, David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Kath...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Scalable data dissemination using hybrid methods
Web server scalability can be greatly enhanced via hybrid data dissemination methods that use both unicast and multicast. Hybrid data dissemination is particularly promising due t...
Wenhui Zhang, Vincenzo Liberatore, Jonathan Beaver...
APWEB
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Sample Sizes for Query Probing in Uncooperative Distributed Information Retrieval
The goal of distributed information retrieval is to support effective searching over multiple document collections. For efficiency, queries should be routed to only those collectio...
Milad Shokouhi, Falk Scholer, Justin Zobel
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Minimal test collections for retrieval evaluation
Accurate estimation of information retrieval evaluation metrics such as average precision require large sets of relevance judgments. Building sets large enough for evaluation of r...
Ben Carterette, James Allan, Ramesh K. Sitaraman
DL
2000
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Server selection on the World Wide Web
We evaluate server selection methods in a Web environment, modeling a digital library which makes use of existing Web search servers rather than building its own index. The evalua...
Nick Craswell, Peter Bailey, David Hawking