Abstract. This paper provides an overview of Prospector, a personalized Internet meta-search engine, which utilizes a combination of ontological information, ratings-based models o...
We present results from an experiment that studied the information search behavior of younger and older adults in a medical decision-making task. To study how different combinatio...
We evaluate three different relevance feedback (RF) algorithms, Rocchio, Robertson/Sparck-Jones (RSJ) and Bayesian, in the context of Web search. We use a target-testing experimen...
Vishwa Vinay, Kenneth R. Wood, Natasa Milic-Frayli...
Query performance predictors are commonly evaluated by reporting correlation coefficients to denote how well the methods perform at predicting the retrieval performance of a set of...
Abstract—XML indexing and search has become an important topic, and twig joins are key building blocks in XML search systems. This paper describes a novel approach using a nested...