There has been a lot of work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines. In this paper, we suggest using human computation games to elicit data from players t...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...
Annotations allow end users to augment digital items with information, which can then be exploited for search and retrieval. We are currently extending Europeana, a platform which...
Bernhard Haslhofer, Elaheh Momeni Roochi, Manuel G...
The world wide web is the largest source for all kind of information currently available. Due to its enormous size retrieving relevant information is a difficult task for which us...
We illustrate that Web searches can often be utilized to generate background text for use with text classification. This is the case because there are frequently many pages on the...
The motivation behind many Information Retrieval systems is to identify and present relevant information to people given their current goals and needs. Learning about user preferen...
Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, Bar...