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Distributed Information Retrieval and Applications

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Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR) is a generic area of research that brings together techniques, such as resource selection and results aggregation, dealing with data that, for organizational or technical reasons, cannot be managed centrally. Existing and potential applications of DIR methods vary from blog retrieval to aggregated search and from multimedia and multilingual retrieval to distributed Web search. In this tutorial we briefly discuss main DIR phases, that are resource description, resource selection, results merging and results presentation. The main focus is made on applications of DIR techniques: blog, expert and desktop search, aggregated search and personal meta-search, multimedia and multilingual retrieval. We also discuss a number of potential applications of DIR techniques, such as distributed Web search, enterprise search and aggregated mobile search.

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  1. University of Lugano, Via G. Buffi 13, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland

    Fabio Crestani & Ilya Markov

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  1. Yandex, Leo Tolstoy, 16, 119021, Moscow, Russia

    Pavel Serdyukov  & Ilya Segalovich  & 

  2. Kontur Labs and Ural Federal University, Fonvizina 3-27, 620078, Yekaterinburg, Russia

    Pavel Braslavski

  3. National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Pokrovskii bd 11, 109028, Moscow, Russia

    Sergei O. Kuznetsov

  4. University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jaap Kamps

  5. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Walton Hall, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK

    Stefan Rüger

  6. Mathematics & Computer Science Department, Emory University, 400 dowman Drive, 30329, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Eugene Agichtein

  7. Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

    Emine Yilmaz

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Crestani, F., Markov, I. (2013). Distributed Information Retrieval and Applications. In: Serdyukov, P., et al. Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7814. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_104

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