Information retrieval (IR) is becoming an increasingly important area as scientific, business and government organisations take up the notion of "information su
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Big Data analytics, BDA 2018, held in Warangal, India, in December 2018. T
This primer reviews the published literature on search result diversification. In particular, it discusses the motivations for diversifying the search results f
As information becomes more ubiquitous and the demands that searchers have on search systems grow, there is a need to support search behaviors beyond simple loo