Some applications have to present their results in the form of ranked lists. This is the case of many information retrieval applications, in which documents must be sorted accordi...
Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de Almeida, Marcos...
We study the development of common ground in an emergency management planning task. Twelve three-person multi-role teams performed the task with a paper prototype in a controlled ...
Gregorio Convertino, Helena M. Mentis, Mary Beth R...
Understanding the intent behind a user's query can help search engine to automatically route the query to some corresponding vertical search engines to obtain particularly re...
Jian Hu, Gang Wang, Frederick H. Lochovsky, Jian-T...
Streams of data often originate from many distributed sources. A distributed stream processing system publishes such streams of data and enables queries over the streams. This allo...
Alasdair J. G. Gray, Werner Nutt, M. Howard Willia...
The document-length normalization problem has been widely studied in the field of Information Retrieval. The Cosine Normalization [2], the Maximum tf Normalization [1] and the By...
Sylvain Lamprier, Tassadit Amghar, Bernard Levrat,...