Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
Combining the output from multiple retrieval sources over the same document collection is of great importance to a number of retrieval tasks such as multimedia retrieval, web retr...
In typical open source software development, developers use revision control systems for product management, mailing list systems for human communications, and bug tracking system...
Collaboration activities usually involve several people presenting different group tasks and requirements. Accordingly, collaboration is rarely supported by a single CSCW technolo...