The model of bulk-synchronous parallel computation (BSP) helps to implement portable general purpose algorithms while keeping predictable performance on different parallel compute...
Cooperative Search Engine (CSE) is a distributed search engine, which can update indexes in very short time for the purpose of fresh information retrieval. In CSE, the retrieval p...
The paper starts with a short overview on areas of application for user profiles. Subsequently a method to represent user profile in the field of document retrieval by using que...
This paper describes the opinion retrieval system for TREC 2007 blog track. This paper focuses on two components of the system. One component is important content block detection ...
This poster session examines a probabilistic approach to distributed information retrieval using a Logistic Regression algorithm for estimation of collection relevance. The algori...