While multimedia documents are sequentially presented to users, an information filtering (IF) system is useful to achieve a good retrieval performance in terms of both quality and ...
Dianhui Wang, Xiaodi Huang, Yong-Soo Kim, Joon Shi...
We study the problem of continuous monitoring of top-k queries over multiple non-synchronized streams. Assuming a sliding window model, this general problem has been a well addres...
Abstract. A useful ability for search engines is to be able to rank objects with novelty and diversity: the top k documents retrieved should cover possible interpretations of a que...
— We present the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of AMPS — a flexible, scalable proxy testbed that supports a wide and extensible set of next-generation pro...
Xiaolan (Ellen) Zhang, Michael K. Bradshaw, Yang G...
We describe a user study that examined the relationship between the quality of an Information Retrieval system and the effectiveness of its users in performing a task. The task i...