Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
An unstructured peer network application was proposed to address the query forwarding problem of distributed search engines and scalability limitations of centralized search engin...
To exploit the similarity information hidden in the hyperlink structure of the web, this paper introduces algorithms scalable to graphs with billions of vertices on a distributed ...
When searching large hypertext document collections, it is often possible that there are too many results available for ambiguous queries. Query refinement is an interactive proce...
As an effective technique for improving retrieval effectiveness, relevance feedback (RF) has been widely studied in both monolingual and cross-language information retrieval (CLIR...