The wealth of information on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers to simple, factual questions such as "who was the first American in space?"...
Greek is one of the most difficult languages to handle in Web Information Retrieval (IR) related tasks. Its difficulty stems from the fact that it is grammatically, morphologicall...
Researchers of commercial search engines often collect data using the application programming interface (API) or by "scraping" results from the web user interface (WUI),...
As the Web has evolved into a data-rich repository, with the standard “page view,” current search engines are becoming increasingly inadequate for a wide range of query tasks....
Research on relevance feedback (RFB) in information retrieval (IR) has given mixed results. Success in RFB seems to depend on the searcher's willingness to provide feedback a...