Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking is aimed at exploiting the potential of widely distributed information pools and its effortless access and retrieval irrespectively of underlying net...
The dominant method for evaluating search engines is the Cranfield paradigm, but the existing metrics do not consider some modern search engines features, such as document snippets...
Ambiguous queries constitute a significant fraction of search instances and pose real challenges to web search engines. With current approaches the top results for these queries ...
Similarity measures for text have historically been an important tool for solving information retrieval problems. In many interesting settings, however, documents are often closel...
Maximizing only the relevance between queries and documents will not satisfy users if they want the top search results to present a wide coverage of topics by a few representative...
Yi Liu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Michael R. Lyu, W...