British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group Merry Christmas Everybody !

British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group

Current IRSG Chair, Mark Dunlop, will not be standing for re-election. After six eventful years in the hot seat, Mark has decided to hand the keys of the inner sanctum over to someone else. And, in case he feels that he might be persuaded to stay on, Mark will also be leaving the UK in the summer for a new research position in Denmark. Nominations for the post of Chair or any committee post, in...

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Evidence of a Christmas spirit network in the brain: functional MRI study

OBJECTIVE To detect and localise the Christmas spirit in the human brain. DESIGN Single blinded, cross cultural group study with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). SETTING Functional imaging unit and department of clinical physiology, nuclear medicine and PET in Denmark. PARTICIPANTS 10 healthy people from the Copenhagen area who routinely celebrate Christmas and 10 healthy peo...

QEA: A New Systematic and Comprehensive Classification of Query Expansion Approaches

A major problem in information retrieval is the difficulty to define the information needs of user and on the other hand, when user offers your query there is a vast amount of information to retrieval. Different methods , therefore, have been suggested for query expansion which concerned with reconfiguring of query by increasing efficiency and improving the criterion accuracy in the information...