This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...
Most Twitter search systems generally treat a tweet as a plain text when modeling relevance. However, a series of conventions allows users to tweet in structural ways using combin...
Zhunchen Luo, Miles Osborne, Sasa Petrovic, Ting W...
Traditionally hypertexts have been limited in size by the manual effort required to create hypertext links. In addition, large hyper–linked collections may overwhelm users with ...
The focus of this paper is a question answering system, where the answers are retrieved from a collection of textual documents. The system also includes automatic document summariz...
Emergent Semantics is a new paradigm for inferring semantic meaning from implicit feedback by a sufficiently large number of users of an object retrieval system. In this paper, we ...