The term web genre denotes the type of a given web resource, in contrast to the topic of its content. In this research, we focus on recognizing the web genres blog, wiki and forum...
We study how to best use crowdsourced relevance judgments learning to rank [1, 7]. We integrate two lines of prior work: unreliable crowd-based binary annotation for binary classi...
Geographic information retrieval encompasses important tasks including finding the location of a user, and locations relevant to their search queries. Web-based search engines rec...
Query expansion is an effective technique to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. Although hand-crafted lexical resources, such as WordNet, could provide more...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have been recently proposed for providing search and information retrieval facilities over distributed data sources, including web data. Terms and their ...
Robert Neumayer, Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil N&os...