Terrier is a modular platform for the rapid development of large-scale Information Retrieval (IR) applications. It can index various document collections, including TREC and Web collections. Terrier also offers a range of document weighting and query expansion models, based on the Divergence From Randomness framework. It has been successfully used for ad-hoc retrieval, cross-language retrieval,...

A DIRECTOR OF A UNIVERSITY LffiRARY has many problems. Besides financial problems, he must decide how to build collections, what resources in the collections can best serve faculty and students, what kind of bibliographical control must be provided, how to cope with the growth of collections and building problems that ensue, how to make more effective public services, how to provide instruction...

Current size About ten text collections containing up to a million pages each; One music collection containing ten thousand melodies Subject matter Computer science technical reports and bibliographies, humanitarian development information, indigenous peoples issues, public-domain English literature, and magazines Information sources Various national and international Interfaces WWW, including ...

Quantifying waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) not arising in documented formal WEEE collection is a major challenge. This paper presents method to characterize estimate quantities of scrap metal. Two European Catalogue List Waste, codes 17 04 05, construction demolition wastes—iron steel 20 01 40, metals separated out from municipal, household, commercial, industrial waste, were ...

Every software development project uses folders to organize software artifacts. We would like to understand how folders are used and what ramifications different uses may have. In this paper we study the frequency of folders used by 140k Github projects and use regression analysis to model how folder use is related to the extent of forking. We find that the standard folders, such as document, t...

References http://www.genesdev.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/293#References This article cites 27 articles, 8 of which can be accessed free at: service Email alerting click here top right corner of the article or Receive free email alerts when new articles cite this article sign up in the box at the Topic collections (79 articles) Development • (87 articles) Chromatin and Gene Expression • Articl...

The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Project has developed digital library services and collections to support the organization, access, and use of collections of information with the use of geospatial reference [1]. The Project's operational component is the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL), developed under Phase I of NSF's First Digital Libraries Initiative and now operational as part of the ...