Two stages in measurement of techniques for information retrieval are gathering of documents for relevance assessment and use of the assessments to numerically evaluate effective...
1 This paper presents an investigation into the utility of document summarisation in the context of information retrieval, more specifically in the application of so called query b...
There are still no established methods for the evaluation of browsing and exploratory search tools. In the (multimedia) information retrieval community evaluations following the C...
The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research funded a major terminology mapping initiative, which found its conclusion in 2007. The task of this terminology mapping initi...
We investigate how to support ranked keyword search in a Parallel Search Cluster Network, which is a newly proposed peer-to-peer network overlay. In particular, we study how to eï...