Browsing SERL - Software Engineering Research Laboratory by Author "Pears, R"

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    • Contextual and concept-based interactive query expansion

      Limbu, D; Pears, R; Connor, AM; MacDonell, S (National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications (NACCQ), 2006)
      In this paper, we present a novel approach for contextual and concept based query formulation in web-based information retrieval, which is an on-going PhD project being undertaken at the Software Engineering Research Lab ...

    • Contextual relevance feedback in web information retrieval

      Limbu, DK; Connor, AM; Pears, R; MacDonell, S (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2006)
      In this paper, we present an alternative approach to the problem of contextual relevance feedback in web-based information retrieval. Our approach utilises a rich contextual model that exploits a user's implicit and explicit ...

    • Improving web information retrieval using shared contexts

      Connor, AM; Limbu, DK; MacDonell, SG; Pears, R (Information Sciences and Computer Engineering, 2010)
      The effective utilisation of a user’s context in improving the performance of web search engines is a subject of intense research interest. In particular, much attention has been directed to the enhancement of queries and ...

    • Improving web search using contextual retrieval

      Limbu, DK; Connor, AM; Pears, R; MacDonell, SG (IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009)
      Contextual retrieval is a critical technique for todaypsilas search engines in terms of facilitating queries and returning relevant information. This paper reports on the development and evaluation of a system designed to ...

    • Mining developer communication streams

      Connor, AM; Finlay, J.A.; Pears, R (Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC) Publishing Corporation, 2014)
      This paper explores the concepts of modelling a software development project as a process that results in the creation of a continuous stream of data. In terms of the Jazz repository used in this research, one aspect of ...