Background: Although there are a large number of thesauri for the biomedical domain many of them lack coverage in terms and their variant forms. Automatic thesaurus construction b...
Compression of term frequency lists and very long document-id lists within an inverted file search engine are examined. Several compression schemes are compared including Elias γ...
This paper describes the Active Reading task, a recent addition to the INEX Book Search track1 . This task aims at exploring how people interact with e-books in different scenario...
The purpose of authorship search is to identify documents written by a particular author or in a particular style in large document collections. Standard search engines match docum...
The power of search is with no doubt one of the main aspects for the success of the Web. Currently available search engines on the Web allow to return results with a high precisio...