We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Abstract—Search context is a crucial factor that helps to understand a user’s information need in ad-hoc Web page retrieval. A query log of a search engine contains rich inform...
Traditional machine-learned ranking algorithms for web search are trained in batch mode, which assume static relevance of documents for a given query. Although such a batch-learni...
The retrieval of similar documents from large scale datasets has been the one of the main concerns in knowledge management environments, such as plagiarism detection, news impact a...
Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Gaston L'Huillier, Sebasti&a...
Concept location is a critical activity during software evolution as it produces the location where a change is to start in response to a modification request, such as, a bug repo...
Gregory Gay, Sonia Haiduc, Andrian Marcus, Tim Men...