In this paper, we describe an alternative web paradigm, called the Web of People. Rather than a web of pages, it is a web of persons. The paradigm is motivated by a number of obvi...
Michel Plu, Pascal Bellec, Layda Agosto, Walter Va...
We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
Traditional desktop search engines only support keyword based search that needs exact keyword matching to find resources. However, users generally have a vague picture of what is...
This paper describes initial work on developing an information system to gather, process and visualise various multimedia data sources related to the South Yorkshire (UK) floods o...
Paul Clough, Robert Pasley, Stefan Siersdorfer, Jo...
We present a Scalable Distributed Information Management System (SDIMS) that aggregates information about large-scale networked systems and that can serve as a basic building bloc...