We study the problem of creating highly compressed fulltext index structures for versioned document collections, that is, collections that contain multiple versions of each docume...
PageRank is known to be an efficient metric for computing general document importance in the Web. While commonly used as a one-size-fits-all measure, the ability to produce topica...
How do people decide which health websites to trust and which to reject? Thirteen participants all diagnosed with hypertension were invited to search for information and advice re...
Elizabeth Sillence, Pamela Briggs, Lesley Fishwick...
Finding relevant information in a hyperspace has been a much studied problem for many years. With the emergence of so called Web 2.0 technologies we have seen the use of social sy...
Rosta Farzan, Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Br...
CiteSeer and Google-Scholar are huge digital libraries which provide access to (computer-)science publications. Both collections are operated like specialized search engines, they ...