The effects of combining search and modelling techniques can be complex and unpredictable, so guidelines are very important for the design and development of effective and robust s...
Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...
An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...
Search engines provide a small window to the vast repository of data they index and against which they search. They try their best to return the documents that are of relevance to...
In large web search engines the performance of Information Retrieval systems is a key issue. Block-based compression methods are often used to improve the search performance, but c...