While searching the web, the user is often confronted by a great number of results, generally displayed in a list which is sorted according to the relevance of the results. Facing...
Nicolas Bonnel, Vincent Lemaire, Alexandre Cotarma...
This paper compares several indexing methods for person names extracted from text, developed for an information retrieval system with requirements for fast approximate matching of...
In the interest of establishing robust benchmarks for search efficiency, we conducted a series of tests on symbolic databases of musical incipits and themes taken from several di...
Craig Stuart Sapp, Yi-Wen Liu, Eleanor Selfridge-F...
Currently, there is no standard instrument for evaluating learning effectiveness. While final examinations and end-of-semester course evaluation surveys can be used to do this, th...
We present a simulation model used to evaluate a distributed search engine by modelling its performance. The model is designed to aid performance-driven evolution of the system. W...
Thomas Phelan, Ahmed Patel, Seamus O. Ciardhu&aacu...