This year, we have participated on multilingual two years on and Multi-8 merging-only CLEF task. Our main interest has been to test several usual CLIR tasks and investigate how th...
A lot of research has been done on answering single-item queries, only a few have looked at answering multiple-item queries in data broadcast systems. The few that did, have propos...
Adesola Omotayo, Ken Barker, Moustafa A. Hammad, L...
Abstract. The increasing need for device independence and personalization forces organizations to automatically adapt their Web Information Systems (WISs) to individual users and t...
Abstract. This paper presents a series of experiments investigating the effectiveness of query-independent features extracted from retrieved objects to predict relevancy. Features...
Users frequently modify a previous search query in hope of retrieving better results. These modifications are called query reformulations or query refinements. Existing research h...