The large amount of information now available on the Web can play a prominent role in building a cooperative intelligent distance learning environment. We propose a system to prov...
Mohammed Abdel Razek, Claude Frasson, Marc Kaltenb...
Query length in best-match information retrieval (IR) systems is well known to be positively related to effectiveness in the IR task, when measured in experimental, non-interactiv...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Diane Kelly, G. Kim, Ja-Young ...
Information retrieval is an empirical science; the field cannot move forward unless there are means of evaluating the innovations devised by researchers. However the methodologies...
Mark Sanderson, Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro, Ju...
Search engines crawl and index webpages depending upon their informative content. However, webpages — especially dynamically generated ones — contain items that cannot be clas...
This demonstration introduces WikiPics, a language-independent image search engine for Wikimedia Commons. Based on the multilingual thesaurus provided by WikiWord, WikiPics allows...