Data fusion on the Web refers to the merging, into a unified single list, of the ranked document lists, which are retrieved in response to a user query by more than one Web search...
We report on the CLEF 2006 WebCLEF track devoted to crosslingual web retrieval. We provide details about the retrieval tasks, the used topic set, and the results of WebCLEF partic...
Whole page relevance defines how well the surface-level representation of all elements on a search result page and the corresponding holistic attributes of the presentation respon...
Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ryen W. White, Liwei ...
This paper describes a simple clustering approach to person name disambiguation of retrieved documents. The methods are based on standard IR concepts and do not require any task-s...
Distributed Shortest-Positioning Time First (D-SPTF) is a request distribution protocol for decentralized systems of storage servers. D-SPTF exploits high-speed interconnects to d...