Mining feedback information from user click-through data is an important issue for modern Web retrieval systems in terms of architecture analysis, performance evaluation and algor...
Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Bo Zhou, Liyun ...
Search engine researchers typically depict search as the solitary activity of an individual searcher. In contrast, results from our critical-incident survey of 150 users on Amazon...
The gap between the user's information need and query is expanding due to the pervasiveness of Web search. Multimedia question answering is restricted by disjoint infrastruct...
Web service may be unable to interact with each other because of incompatibilities between their interfaces. In this paper, we present an event driven approach which aims at adapt...
How to merge and organise query results retrieved from different resources is one of the key issues in distributed information retrieval. Some previous research and experiments su...