We propose to use MapReduce to quickly test new retrieval approaches on a cluster of machines by sequentially scanning all documents. We present a small case study in which we use ...
The indexation of documents is a critical step of the information retrieval process and is often a manual task which highly depends on the indexer’s knowledge. We propose to imp...
Although information retrieval research has always been concerned with improving the effectiveness of search, in some applications, such as information analysis, a more specific ...
Due to rapid information growth, peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have become a promising alternative to centralized, client/server-based approaches for large-scale data sharing. By all...
Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical spac...
Christopher B. Jones, Harith Alani, Douglas Tudhop...