In this Special Interest Group (SIG) the attendees will discuss methods for capturing usability data over time. Specifically, we will share industry best practices, brainstorm alt...
Performance evaluation is an important issue in Web search engine researches. Traditional evaluation methods rely on much human efforts and are therefore quite time-consuming. Wit...
Yiqun Liu, Yupeng Fu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyu...
Image search engines tend to return a large number of images which the engines consider to be relevant, and such pool of results generally is very large and may be regarded to be ...
Measuring the similarity between implicit semantic relations is an important task in information retrieval and natural language processing. For example, consider the situation whe...
An experimental adaptive filtering system, built on the Okapi search engine, is described. In addition to the regular text retrieval functions, the system requires a complex set o...