The Esprit project PRODNET II1 (Production Planning and Management in an Extended Enterprise) had as its main objective the development of a reference architecture and a support in...
The goal of personalization in information retrieval is to tailor the search engine results to the specific goals, preferences and general interests of the users. We propose a no...
The Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University participated in the entity ranking and entity list completion tasks of the Entity Ranking Track in INEX 2007. In both the entit...
With the exponential growth of the available information on the World Wide Web, a traditional search engine, even if based on sophisticated document indexing algorithms, has diffi...
Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...