Traditional interactive information retrieval systems function by creating inverted lists, or term indexes. For every term in the vocabulary, a list is created that contains the d...
Privacy is one of the most important properties of an information system must satisfy. In which systems the need to share information among different, not trusted entities, the pro...
Information needs are rarely satisfied directly on search engine result pages. Searchers usually need to click through to search results (landing pages) and follow search trails b...
This paper describes how to make use of e-books that look like printed books in a knowledge network. After an overview of digitalization efforts and current digital library initia...
Empirical modeling of the score distributions associated with retrieved documents is an essential task for many retrieval applications. In this work, we propose modeling the releva...