In this paper we present the Infocious Web search engine [23]. Our goal in creating Infocious is to improve the way people find information on the Web by resolving ambiguities pre...
Ranking function performance reached a plateau in 1994. The reason for this is investigated. First the performance of BM25 is measured as the proportion of queries satisfied on th...
Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...
We have developed a browser suitable for finding events from timelines, in particular from life logs and other timelines containing a familiar narrative. The system infers the rel...
Abstract. Relevance feedback (RF) has been an effective query modification approach to improving the performance of information retrieval (IR) by interactively asking a user whet...