The massive distribution of the crawling task can lead to inefficient exploration of the same portion of the Web. We propose a technique to guide crawlers exploration based on the...
Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...
This paper summarizes the work done at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the GeoCLEF 2006 track. The approach presented uses pure IR techniques (indexing of sing...
Miguel E. Ruiz, June M. Abbas, David Mark, Stuart ...
Distance learning gives benefits for training organization, which are further enhanced by using new information and communication technology. Computerbased tools provide a solutio...
The problem of low-quality information on the Web is nowhere more important than in the domain of health, where unsound information and misleading advice can have serious consequen...
Thanh Tin Tang, David Hawking, Ramesh S. Sankarana...