Mediated information retrieval in Web searching

Mediated Web information retrieval for a complex searching task

The goal of this study is to understand whether providing a search intermediary familiar with a problem domain and its topical structure would support a user " s Web searching tasks, especially complicated tasks with multifaceted topics, and whether the order of searching tasks or system usage influences their successful completion. This study investigates the effect of two factors, the interac...

Web searching, search engines and Information Retrieval

This article discusses Web search engines; mainly the challenges in indexing the World Wide Web, the user behaviour, and the ranking factors used by these engines. Ranking factors are divided into query-dependent and query-independent factors, the latter of which have become more and more important within recent years. The possibilities of these factors are limited, mainly of those that are bas...

Similarities and differences between Web search procedure and searching in the pre-web information retrieval systems

Name Searching and Information Retrieval

The main application of name searching has b e ~ name matching in a database of names. This paper discusses a different application: improving information retrieval through name recognition. It investigates name recognition accuracy, and the effect on retrieval performance of indexing and searching personal names differently from non-name terms in the context of ranked retrieval. The main concl...

quantum model for information retrieval in web 2.0

the study deals with the possibility of information loss in web 2.0 due to the interaction between the overload and the real information. using gottesman and preskill method, this investigation has proposed a mechanism to calculate the amount of information transformation in web 2.0. in this proposal, there are three different hilbert spaces that belong to the degrees of freedom of outside, ins...