—In recent years, there has been a move toward supporting the human element of Web search beyond a simple query box and a ranked list of search results. In this paper, we present...
Performance prediction has gained increasing attention in the IR field since the half of the past decade and has become an established research topic in the field. The present work...
In this paper we describe retrieval experiments performed at Charles University in Prague for participation in the CLEF 2007 Ad-Hoc track. We focused on the Czech monolingual task...
A key problem that arises when unstructured text is being queried is that of properly recognizing and exploiting geographical terms and entities. Here we describe a mechanism for ...
Yi Li, Alistair Moffat, Nicola Stokes, Lawrence Ca...
Search engines are an essential tool for modern life. We use them to discover new information on diverse topics and to locate a wide range of resources. The search process in all ...