Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over multip...
Several IR tasks rely, to achieve high efficiency, on a single pervasive data structure called the inverted index. This is a mapping from the terms in a text collection to the docu...
Due to both the size and growth of the internet, new tools are needed to assist with the finding and extraction of very specific resources relevant to a user's task. Previous...
We reported some experiments conducted by our members in the SIG team at the IRIT laboratory in the CLEF medical retrieval task, namely ImageCLEFmed. In 2010, we are particularly i...
This paper provides an overview of experiments carried out at the TREC 2004 Terabyte Track using the Indri search engine. Indri is an efficient, effective distributed search engin...
Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, Howard R. Turtle,...