Preference queries aim to retrieve from large databases those objects that better match user’s requirements. Approaches proposed so far in the DB field for specifying preference...
Graphs are widely used for modeling complicated data, including chemical compounds, protein interactions, XML documents, and multimedia. Information retrieval against such data ca...
Haoliang Jiang, Haixun Wang, Philip S. Yu, Shuigen...
When joining information provider peers to a peer-to-peer network, an arbitrary distribution is sub-optimal. In fact, clustering peers by their characteristics, enhances search and...
We describe an entirely statistics-based, unsupervised, and languageindependent approach to multilingual information retrieval, which we call Latent Morpho-Semantic Analysis (LMSA...
Most existing information retrieval (IR) systems do not take much advantage of natural language processing (NLP) techniques due to the complexity and limited observed effectivenes...