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EICS
2009
ACM
16 years 26 days ago
How usable are operational digital libraries: a usability evaluation of system interactions
This paper reports a usability evaluation of three operational digital libraries (DLs): the ACM DL, the IEEE Computer Society DL, and the IEEE Xplore DL. An experiment was conduct...
Xiangmin Zhang, Jingjing Liu, Yuelin Li, Ying Zhan...
DL
2000
Springer
137views Digital Library» more  DL 2000»
15 years 10 months ago
Server selection on the World Wide Web
We evaluate server selection methods in a Web environment, modeling a digital library which makes use of existing Web search servers rather than building its own index. The evalua...
Nick Craswell, Peter Bailey, David Hawking
DEXA
2009
Springer
176views Database» more  DEXA 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Analyzing Document Retrievability in Patent Retrieval Settings
Most information retrieval settings, such as web search, are typically precision-oriented, i.e. they focus on retrieving a small number of highly relevant documents. However, in sp...
Shariq Bashir, Andreas Rauber
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 26 days ago
Effective query expansion for federated search
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Milad Shokouhi, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas
WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Testbed for information extraction from deep web
Search results generated by searchable databases are served dynamically and far larger than the static documents on the Web. These results pages have been referred to as the Deep ...
Yasuhiro Yamada, Nick Craswell, Tetsuya Nakatoh, S...