ERCIMDL
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. Collection selection is traditionally a sub-problem of metasearch, and identifies collections most likely to contain relevant documents. However, we propose to treat coll...
INFOSCALE
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2007
ACM
— To address the rapid growth of the Internet, modern Web search engines have to adopt distributed organizations, where the collection of indexed documents is partitioned among s...
CIKM
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2001
Springer
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
ITCC
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2005
ACM
Collection selection has been a research issue for years. Typically, in related work, precomputed statistics are employed in order to estimate the expected result quality of each ...