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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Using local precision to compare search engines in consumer health information retrieval
We have conducted a user study to evaluate several generalist and health-specific search engines on health information retrieval. Users evaluated the relevance of the top 30 docum...
Carla Teixeira Lopes, Cristina Ribeiro
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Search engine retrieval of changing information
In this paper we analyze the Web coverage of three search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN. We conducted a 15 month study collecting 15,770 Web content or information pages linked f...
Yang Sok Kim, Byeong Ho Kang, Paul Compton, Hirosh...
ACSC
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Needles and Haystacks: A Search Engine for Personal Information Collections
Information retrieval systems can be partitioned into two main classes: large-scale systems that make use of an inverted index or some other auxiliary data structure, intended for...
Owen de Kretser, Alistair Moffat
HICSS
2010
IEEE
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14 years 5 days ago
Spatial Variation in Search Engine Results
Geographic information retrieval (GIR) is, as a branch of traditional information retrieval, a discipline that tries to enrich data with geographical information to make it suitab...
David Noack
IRAL
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Query term disambiguation for Web cross-language information retrieval using a search engine
With the worldwide growth of the Internet, research on Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) is being paid much attention. Existing CLIR approaches based on query translatio...
Akira Maeda, Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Sh...