We compare standard global IR searching with user-centric localized techniques to address the database selection problem. We conduct a series of experiments to compare the retriev...
Due to the lack of in-built tools to navigate the web, people have to use external solutions to find information. The most popular of these are search engines and web directories....
At University of Southern California (USC), CSCI577ab is a graduate software engineering course that teaches best software engineering practices and allows students to apply the l...
The design of multi-touch multi-user tabletop user interfaces is still in its infancy and is not yet well understood. To date, published experimental results have primarily focuse...
This paper reports on our participation in CLEF 2005‘s ad-hoc multi-lingual retrieval track. The ad-hoc task introduced Bulgarian and Hungarian as new languages. Our experiments...