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 ...
We investigate three issues in distributed information retrieval, considering both TREC data and U.S. Patents: (1) topical organization of large text collections, (2) collection r...
Leah S. Larkey, Margaret E. Connell, James P. Call...
The problem of results merging in distributed information retrieval environments has been approached by two different directions in research. Estimation approaches attempt to cal...
Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satr...
In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...
In standard text retrieval systems, the documents are gathered and indexed on a single server. In distributed information retrieval (DIR), the documents are held in multiple colle...