This paper examines whether the Cranfield evaluation methodology is robust to gross violations of the completeness assumption (i.e., the assumption that all relevant documents wi...
We consider an interactive information retrieval task in which the user is interested in finding several to many relevant documents with minimal effort. Given an initial documen...
We assess a family of ranking mechanisms for search engines based on linkage analysis using a carefully engineered subset of the World Wide Web, WT10g (Bailey, Craswell and Hawking...
Concerted research effort since the nineteen fifties has lead to effective methods for retrieval of relevant documents from homogeneous collections of text, such as r archives,...
In a federated digital library system, it is too expensive to query every accessible library. Resource selection is the task to decide to which libraries a query should be routed....