On July 24, 2008 the SIGIR Workshop on Focused Retrieval was held as part of SIGIR in Singapore. Nine paper were presented in three sessions and in a fourth session--joint with th...
In information retrieving applications, mobile agents may have to finish their mission before a deadline. Also, there may be some flexibility for the itinerary definition due to o...
Several researchers have suggested that Bayesian networks (BNs) should be used to manage the inherent uncertainty in information retrieval. However, it has been argued that manuall...
Simple word matching between the user query and document is common, as are mis-matches of meaning that occur as a consequence, and errors in recall. These defects in the "bag...
Abstract. Several actions are usually performed when document is appended to textual database in information retrieval system. The most frequent actions are compression of the docu...