David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, Trystan Upstill, Craswell Csiro, Kaszkiel Www, ...
This talk makes a set of recommendations on how to set up high quality search of an organisation’s key information assets. Some of them are nothing more than my personal opinion and may be ignored;...
Performance and Cost Tradeoffs in Web Search (2004)
Nick Craswell Francis, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Alistair Moffat
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alternative ways in...
Performance and Cost Tradeoffs in Web Search (2004)
Nick Craswell Francis, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Alistair Moffat
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alternative ways in...
How Valuable is External Link Evidence when Searching Enterprise Webs? (2004)
David Hawking Francis, Francis Crimmins, Nick Craswell, Trystan Upstill
Link information, especially anchor text, is known to be very useful for e#ective ranking of web pages, particularly in response to navigational queries. We investigated whether enterprise webs...
ATask Oriented Approach to Delivery in Mobile Environments (2003)
François Paradis, Francis Crimmins, Nadine Ozkan
Abstract. The delivery of Internet content on mobile devices not only poses technological challenges, but also raises usability issues. In this paper, we propose an approach driven by tasks, where a...
TtraFusion: Information Discovery on the Internet (1999)
Francis Crimmins, Alan F. Smeaton
this article will show, our TetraFusion system addressed many of these weaknesses by building a number of layers of information harvesting and analysis on top of the simple IR functions.
Alan F. Smeaton, Mark Burnett, Francis Crimmins, Gerard Quinn
Clustering of related or similar objects has long been regarded as a potentially useful contribution to helping users navigate an information space such as a document collection. When documents are...
Alan F. Smeaton, Francis Crimmins
A fully operational large scale digital library is likely to be based on a distributed architecture and because of this it is likely that a number of independent search engines may be used to index...
Smeaton, Alan F., Crimmins, Francis
A fully operational large scale digital library is likely to be based on a distributed architecture and because of this it is likely that a number of independent search engines may be used to index...
Smeaton, Alan F., Crimmins, Francis
A fully operational large scale digital library is likely to be based on a distributed architecture and because of this it is likely that a number of independent search engines may be used to index...