With the growth of the Web as a public information resource, users need workspaces to support the collection, evaluation, organization, and annotation of the materials they retrie...
Frank M. Shipman III, Catherine C. Marshall, Mark ...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Topic distillation aims at finding key resources which are high-quality pages for certain topics. With analysis in non-content features of key resources, a pre-selection method is ...
Open Source communities typically use a software repository to archive various software projects with their source code, mailing list discussions, documentation, bug reports, and ...
Shinji Kawaguchi, Pankaj K. Garg, Makoto Matsushit...
This paper presents the ITC-irst Multilingual Question Answering system DIOGENE. The system was used successfully on the CLEF-2003, TREC-2003, TREC-2002 and TREC-2001 QA tracks. DI...