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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
2010
ACM
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...
IRAL
2000
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2000
ACM
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...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
The unarguably fast, and continuous, growth of the volume of indexed (and indexable) documents on the Web poses a great challenge for search engines. This is true regarding not on...
HICSS
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
Today’s search engines retrieve tens of thousands of web pages in response to fairly simple query articulations. These pages are retrieved on the basis of the query terms occurr...
ERCIMDL
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2005
Springer
Vertical search engines and web portals are gaining ground over the general-purpose engines due to their limited size and their high precision for the domain they cover. The number...