People are thirsty for medical information. Existing Web search engines often cannot handle medical search well because they do not consider its special requirements. Often a medi...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Many systems exist for community formation in extensions of traditional Web environments but little work has been done for forming and maintaining communities in the more dynamic e...
We have developed a distributed search engine, Cooperative Search Engine (CSE) to retrieve fresh information. In CSE, a local search engine located in each web server makes an ind...
The success of Web search is often limited by a variety of factors. Typical queries are vague and imprecise. At the same time, the Web is a dynamic and unmoderated collection and ...