Month: July 2010

Query-Based Sampling using SnippetsTigelaar, A. S. & Hiemstra, D.In Proceedings of LSDS-IR 2010, Geneva, Switzerland (pp. 9-14). View in Repository Abstract Query-based sampling is a commonly used approach to model the content of servers. Conventionally, queries are sent to a server and the documents in the search results returned are downloaded in full as representation… [Continue Reading]

Cluster-based Collection Selection in Uncooperative Distributed Information Retrievalby Bertold van Voorst View in Repository Abstract The focus of this research is collection selection for distributed information retrieval. The collection descriptions that are necessary for selecting the most relevant collections are often created from information gathered by random sampling. Collection selection based on an incomplete index… [Continue Reading]