Conventional search engines, such as Bing, Baidu, and Google, offer a convenient way for
users to seek information on the web. However, with all the benefits they provide, one major …

People have looked for experts since before the advent of computers. With advances in
information retrieval technology and the large-scale availability of digital traces of …

Search and information retrieval systems are becoming more expressive in interpreting user
queries beyond the traditional weighted bag-of-words model of document retrieval. For …

Search on the web, specifically fetching of the relevant content, has been paid attention to
since the advent of the web and particularly in recent years due to the tremendous growth in …

Federated search systems aggregate results from multiple search engines, selecting
appropriate sources to enhance result quality and align with user intent. With the increasing …

Systems and methods enable federation of search results. An identification of a first data
source associated with a first schema is received by the system, the first data source …

Users install many apps on their smartphones, raising issues related to information overload
for users and resource management for devices. Moreover, the recent increase in the use of …

These days the technique of data fusion has been used extensively in many different
application areas and information retrieval is one of them. As early as 1980's, researchers …

The query-performance prediction task has been described as estimating retrieval
effectiveness in the absence of relevance judgments. The expectations throughout the years …

The traditional search solution for large collections divides the collection into subsets
(shards), and processes the query against all shards in parallel (exhaustive search). The …