In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) track. Our work involved two aspects: finding good methods for Chinese IR, and findin...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jian Zhang, Endong Xun...
There have been recent interests in studying the "goal" behind a user's Web query, so that this goal can be used to improve the quality of a search engine's re...
K-Means clustering is widely used in information retrieval and data mining. Distributed K-Means variants have already been proposed, but none of the past algorithms scales to large...
Odysseas Papapetrou, Wolf Siberski, Fabian Leitrit...
The World-Wide Web (WWW) is an ever growing, distributed, non-administered, global information resource. It resides on the worldwide computer network and allows access to heteroge...
Abstract. We provide evidence of the feasibility and effectiveness of a middleware architecture for mobile devices which employs dense distributions of small computerized entities ...