Most information retrieval technologies are designed to facilitate information discovery. However, much knowledge work involves finding and re-using previously seen information. W...
Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Jonathan J. Cadiz...
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Ranking a set of retrieved documents according to their relevance to a given query has become a popular problem at the intersection of web search, machine learning, and informatio...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Abstract- String matching problem received much attention over the years due to its importance in various applications such as text/file comparison, DNA sequencing, search engines,...