This paper describes our participation at the GeoCLEF 2005 task. We detail the main software components of our Geo-IR system, its adaptation for the participation at GeoCLEF and d...
Nuno Cardoso, Bruno Martins, Marcirio Silveira Cha...
Abstract. The SPIRIT search engine provides a test bed for the development of web search technology that is specialised for access to geographical information. Major components inc...
Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty, David Fin...
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:...
The Web continues to grow at a tremendous rate. Search engines find it increasingly difficult to provide useful results. To manage this explosively large number of Web documents,...
Sandip Debnath, Tracy Mullen, Arun Upneja, C. Lee ...
This paper defines and describes a fully distributed implementation of Google’s highly effective Pagerank algorithm, for “peer to peer”(P2P) systems. The implementation is ...