To support the retrieval of multimedia data according to user information needs, multimedia information retrieval in digital libraries must be based on semantics and not just prim...
New standards in document representation, like for example SGML, XML, and MPEG-7, compel Information Retrieval to design and implement models and tools to index, retrieve and prese...
Fabio Crestani, Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fern&aa...
Abstract. We present a model for complex documents possibly consisting of a hierarchically structured set of images or texts. Documents are represented both at the form level (as s...
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Stracc...
This paper investigates the use of the logical structure in XML documents for the retrieval of XML multimedia objects. We study different logical levels and their combinations. Our...
Empirical modeling of the score distributions associated with retrieved documents is an essential task for many retrieval applications. In this work, we propose modeling the releva...