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PRICAI
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2004
Springer
Search has arguably become the dominant paradigm for finding information on the World Wide Web. In order to build a successful search engine, there are a number of challenges that ...
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2009
Springer
The paper makes three points of significance for IR research: (1) The Cranfield paradigm of IR evaluation seems to lose power when one looks at human instead of system performance....
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
2012
ACM
During a three-day workshop in February 2012, 45 Information Retrieval researchers met to discuss long-range challenges and opportunities within the field. The result of the works...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 6 days ago
2011
ACM
Search engine switching is the voluntary transition between Web search engines. Engine switching can occur for a number of reasons, including user dissatisfaction with search resu...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2008
ACM
Searching for medical information on the Web has become highly popular, but it remains a challenging task because searchers are often uncertain about their exact medical situation...