A number of applications require selecting targets for specific contents on the basis of criteria defined by the contents providers rather than selecting documents in response to ...
The requirements imposed on information retrieval systems are increasing steadily. The vast number of documents in today's large databases and especially on World Wide Web ca...
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) via query-expansion has been proven to be effective in many information retrieval (IR) tasks. In most existing work, the top-ranked documents from...
: This paper presents the design criteria for an Intelligent User Interface to a search engine of an on-line document data base. The Interface is aimed at users that have little or...
Web search engines consistently collect information about users interaction with the system: they record the query they issued, the URL of presented and selected documents along w...