In this paper, we describe the design and initial implementation of a geographic search engine prototype for Germany, based on a large crawl of the de domain. Geographic search en...
Alexander Markowetz, Yen-Yu Chen, Torsten Suel, Xi...
Abstract. With information proliferation on the Web, how to obtain highquality information from the Web has been one of hot research topics in many fields like Database, IR as well...
This paper summarizes the task design for iCLEF 2006 (the CLEF interactive track). Compared to previous years, we have proposed a radically new task: searching images in a natural...
We present an algorithm that minimizes the expected cost of indirect binary search for data with non-constant access costs, such as disk data. Indirect binary search means that sor...
Eduardo F. Barbosa, Gonzalo Navarro, Ricardo A. Ba...
In recent years, while search engines have become more and more powerful, several specialized search engines have been developed for different domains (e.g. library services, serv...