A web media agent is presented, which can make a user's web surfing experience more productive. Once the user visits a web page, semantic descriptions of the media objects on...
Zheng Chen, Liu Wenyin, Rui Yang, Mingjing Li, Hon...
Numerous studies have examined the ability of query performance prediction methods to estimate a query’s quality for system effectiveness measures (such as average precision). ...
Claudia Hauff, Franciska de Jong, Diane Kelly, Lei...
The terms that are used by users during tagging have been found to be different from the terms that are used when searching for resources, which represents a fundamental problem f...
In most previous work on personalized search algorithms, the results for all queries are personalized in the same manner. However, as we show in this paper, there is a lot of vari...
Research on relevance feedback (RFB) in information retrieval (IR) has given mixed results. Success in RFB seems to depend on the searcher's willingness to provide feedback a...