Abstract. Partial-match queries return data items that contain a subset of the query keywords and order the results based on the statistical properties of the matched keywords. The...
We have proposed a novel image retrieval system that incorporates a workspace where users can organise their search results. A task-oriented and usercentred experiment has been dev...
Search engine logs are an emerging new type of data that offers interesting opportunities for data mining. Existing work on mining such data has mostly attempted to discover knowl...
We demonstrate effective new methods of document ranking based on lexical cohesive relationships between query terms. The proposed methods rely solely on the lexical relationships...
A key problem that arises when unstructured text is being queried is that of properly recognizing and exploiting geographical terms and entities. Here we describe a mechanism for ...
Yi Li, Alistair Moffat, Nicola Stokes, Lawrence Ca...