It has long been recognised that interactivity improves the effectiveness of Information Retrieval systems. Speech is the most natural and interactive medium of communication and ...
Abstract. The problem of nding documents that are written in a language that the searcher cannot read is perhaps the most challenging application of Cross-Language Information Retr...
We introduce the formal framework of a generalized interaction scheme for information access between users and information sources. Within this framework we describe an interactio...
Focusing on the context of XML retrieval, in this paper we propose a general methodology for managing structured queries (involving both content and structure) within any given st...
1 This paper presents an investigation into the utility of document summarisation in the context of information retrieval, more specifically in the application of so called query b...