In textual knowledge management, statistical methods prevail. Nonetheless, some difficulties cannot be overcome by these methodologies. I propose a symbolic approach using a comp...
We show how the recognition performance of a speech recognition component in a speech retrieval system affects the retrieval effectiveness. A speech retrieval system facilitates c...
This paper describes a method for asking statistical questions about a large text corpus. We exemplify the method by addressing the question, "What percentage of Federal Regi...
Abstract. The availability of the logical structure of documents in contentoriented XML retrieval can be beneficial for users of XML retrieval systems. However, research into struc...
Most applications developed today rely on a given middleware platform which governs the interaction between components, the access to resources, etc. To decide, which platform is ...