Web information retrieval is best known for its use of the Web’s link structure as a source of evidence. Global link evidence is by nature query-independent, and is therefore no ...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
In this paper, we presented an image search service for mobile users. It can be used to acquire related information by taking and sending pictures to the server, for example, gett...
Data sharing between two organizations is common in many application areas e.g. business planing or marketing. Useful global patterns can be discovered from the integrated dataset...
This paper gives an overview of the evaluation method used for the Web Retrieval Task in the Third NTCIR Workshop, which is currently in progress. In the Web Retrieval Task, we tr...
Koji Eguchi, Keizo Oyama, Emi Ishida, Kazuko Kuriy...