We examine issues in the design of fully dynamic information retrieval systems with support for instantaneous document insertions and deletions. We present one such system and dis...
Cooperation in information retrieval contexts can be used to share query results inside groups of individuals with common objectives, provided that all of them are aware of each ot...
In this paper, we describe the use of similarity metrics in a novel visual environment for storing and retrieving favorite web pages. The similarity metrics, called Implicit Queri...
Mary Czerwinski, Susan T. Dumais, George G. Robert...
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
We report on the development of a new automatic feedback model to improve information retrieval in digital libraries. Our hypothesis is that some particular sentences, selected ba...
Patrick Ruch, Imad Tbahriti, Julien Gobeill, Alan ...