In an environment of distributed text collections, the first step in the information retrieval process is to identify which of all available collections are more relevant to a giv...
The ImageCLEF Photo Retrieval Task 2009 focused on image retrieval and diversity. A new collection was utilised in this task consisting of approximately half a million images with...
Monica Lestari Paramita, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clou...
Experienced web users have strategies for information search and re-access that are not directly supported by web browsers or search engines. We studied how prevalent these strate...
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
With the increasing importance of search in guiding today's web traffic, more and more effort has been spent to create search engine spam. Since link analysis is one of the m...