Query expansion has been shown effective for both single database retrieval and for distributed information retrieval where complete collection information is available. One might...
In this short note we present a recommendation system for automatic retrieval of broken Web links using an approach based on contextual information. We extract information from th...
The Agent-Community-based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (ACP2P) method uses agent communities to manage and look up information of interest to users. An agent works as a dele...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Arabic, a highly inflected language, requires good stemming for effective information retrieval, yet no standard approach to stemming has emerged. We developed several light stemm...
Leah S. Larkey, Lisa Ballesteros, Margaret E. Conn...