There are information needs involving costly decisions that cannot be efficiently satisfied through conventional web search engines. Alternately, community centric search can prov...
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Jun'ichi Tatemu...
The standard method for making the full content of audio and video material searchable and is to annotate it with humangenerated meta-data that describes the content in a way that...
We propose a mathematical framework for query selection as a mechanism for reducing the cost of constructing information retrieval test collections. In particular, our mathematica...
Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayl...
In this paper, we show that most multiple term queries include more than one topic and users usually reformulate their queries by topics instead of terms. In order to provide empi...
Xuefeng He, Jun Yan, Jinwen Ma, Ning Liu, Zheng Ch...
Adaptive web sites have been proposed to enhance ease of navigation and information retrieval. A variety of approaches are described in the literature, but consideration of interf...
Doug Warner, Stephen D. Durbin, J. Neal Richter, Z...