Personalized information agents can help overcome some of the limitations of communal Web information sources such as portals and search engines. Two important components of these...
We consider the problem of combining ranking results from various sources. In the context of the Web, the main applications include building meta-search engines, combining ranking...
Cynthia Dwork, Ravi Kumar, Moni Naor, D. Sivakumar
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
The design and implementation of a conceptual model, CAFE (a Categorization Assistant For E-mail), is described. The model supports the organization, searching, and retrieval of i...
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2008 Enterprise track and detail our language modeling-based approaches. For document search, our focus was on query expansion using pro...