Semantic similarity between words or phrases is frequently used to find matching correlations between search queries and documents when straightforward matching of terms fails. Th...
We introduce IR-Wire, a tool for information retrieval research and education in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. Built on top of LimeWire's implementation of the popular G...
Linh Thai Nguyen, Wai Gen Yee, Dongmei Jia, Ophir ...
The goal of this paper is to permit secure outsourced system evaluation. We propose a method for generating synthetic databases and obfuscating a workload of queries in order to pr...
This paper proposes an English learning support tool which provides users with divergent information to find the right words and expressions. In contrast to a number of software to...
An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in Web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. To save the user's effort in manually exploring eac...