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WIDM
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Specialisation dynamics in federated web search
Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...
Rinat Khoussainov, Nicholas Kushmerick
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The demographics of web search
How does the web search behavior of “rich” and “poor” people differ? Do men and women tend to click on different results for the same query? What are some queries almost...
Ingmar Weber, Carlos Castillo
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
To index or not to index: time-space trade-offs in search engines with positional ranking functions
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Diego Arroyuelo, Senén González, Mau...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Text Clustering for Peer-to-Peer Networks with Probabilistic Guarantees
Text clustering is an established technique for improving quality in information retrieval, for both centralized and distributed environments. However, for highly distributed envir...
Odysseas Papapetrou, Wolf Siberski, Norbert Fuhr
ICPP
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Search Using a Fault-Tolerant Overlay in Unstructured P2P Systems
Gnutella overlays have evolved to use a two-tier topology. However, we observed that the new topology had only achieved modest improvements in search success rates. Also, the new ...
William Acosta, Surendar Chandra