Determining candidates' views on important issues is critical in deciding whom to support and vote for; but finding their statements and votes on an issue can be laborious. I...
Subject-specific search facilities on health sites are usually built using manual inclusion and exclusion rules. These can be expensive to maintain and often provide incomplete c...
Thanh Tin Tang, David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Kath...
The power of search is with no doubt one of the main aspects for the success of the Web. Currently available search engines on the Web allow to return results with a high precisio...
Query expansion terms are often used to enhance original query formulations in document retrieval. Such terms are usually selected from the entire documents or from windows or pas...
The problem of results merging in distributed information retrieval environments has been approached by two different directions in research. Estimation approaches attempt to cal...
Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satr...