The problem we address in this paper is the role of context in the interpretation of images when pictures are used as queries. An image usually depicts several objects and is open...
Abstract. We introduce a novel situation-aware approach to personalize search results for mobile users. By providing a mobile user with appropriate information that dynamically sat...
Abstract. In this paper we provide a full-scale evaluation of a cluster-based architecture for P2P IR, focusing on retrieval effectiveness. We observe that there is a significant ...
Full-text information retrieval systems have traditionally been designed for archival environments. They often provide little or no support for adding new documents to an existing...
Using Dirac Notation as a powerful tool, we investigate the three classical Information Retrieval (IR) models and some their extensions. We show that almost all such models can be...