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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Focused crawling for both topical relevance and quality of medical information
Subject-specific search facilities on health sites are usually built using manual inclusion and exclusion rules. These can be expensive to maintain and often provide incomplete c...
Thanh Tin Tang, David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Kath...
JCDL
2009
ACM
133views Education» more  JCDL 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Cost and benefit analysis of mediated enterprise search
The utility of an enterprise search system is determined by three key players: the information retrieval (IR) system (the search engine), the enterprise users, and the service pro...
Mingfang Wu, James A. Thom, Andrew Turpin, Ross Wi...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
150views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
14 years 7 months ago
When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Server selection methods in hybrid portal search
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
David Hawking, Paul Thomas
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
MIRACLE at GeoCLEF Query Parsing 2007: Extraction and Classification of Geographical Information
This paper describes the participation of MIRACLE research consortium at the Query Parsing task of GeoCLEF 2007. Our system is composed of three main modules. First, the Named Geo...
Sara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, Jos...