Information Retrieval (IR) is a major component in many of our daily activities, with perhaps its most prominent role manifested in search engines. Today’s most advanced engines...
Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
This study focused on the relevance judgments made by health information users using the Web. Health information users were conceptualized as motivated information users concerned...
There exist numerous systems for mining the web in search of relevant information but few exist for the discovery of interesting information. The discovery of interesting informat...
We introduce an experimental search engine for multilingual and multimedia information, employing a holistic web interface and enabling the use of highly distributed indices. Moda...
Konstantinos Zagoris, Avi Arampatzis, Savvas A. Ch...