DKE
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
In this paper we explore how (micro)economic theory can be used to analyze and model the exchange of information on the Web. More specifically, we consider searchers for informati...
IPM
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Searchers can face problems finding the information they seek. One reason for this is that they may have difficulty devising queries to express their information needs. In this ar...
TREC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
In the experiment described in this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a document-independent technique for eliciting additional information from searchers about their inf...
OPODIS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Abstract. Blin et al. (2006) proposed a distributed protocol that enables the smallest number of searchers to clear any unknown asynchronous graph in a decentralized manner. Unknow...
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
The availability of a document’s logical structure in XML retrieval allows retrieval systems to return document portions (elements) instead of whole documents. This helps searche...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
Despite its potential to improve search effectiveness, previous research has shown that the uptake of interactive query expansion (IQE) is limited. In this paper, we investigate on...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
We investigate the criteria used by online searchers when assessing the relevance of web pages to information-seeking tasks. Twenty four searchers were given three tasks each, and...
IROS
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
– A problem of searching with multiple searchers and scouts is presented. Unlike most search problems that terminate as soon as the target is found, successful detections by scou...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Searching for medical information on the Web is highly popular these days. To facilitate ordinary people to perform medical search and preliminary disease self-diagnosis, we have ...