This paper describes the Active Reading task, a recent addition to the INEX Book Search track1 . This task aims at exploring how people interact with e-books in different scenario...
This article addresses a question regarding relevant information in a social media such as a wiki that can contain huge amount of text, written in slang or in natural language, wi...
Carlos Miguel Tobar, Alessandro Santos Germer, Jua...
Geo-referenced information is used by a growing number of “spatially-aware” tools in different application areas, including tourism, marketing, environmental management, and m...
The widespread use of RDF-based information necessitates efficient information retrieval techniques in wide-area networks. In this paper, we present Dynamic Semantic Space, a sche...
Topics in the field of Web Information Retrieval (IR) and web search are slowly being introduced at the undergraduate level. In this paper, we show how the curriculum for a new u...