Abstract. We propose a new approach for enhancing collaborative information retrieval by means of incorporating positional data for a location-aware personalized retrieval process....
Andreas Behrend, Frank Reichartz, Christian Dorau,...
— Information extraction systems are traditionally implemented as a pipeline of special-purpose processing modules. A major drawback of such an approach is that whenever a new ex...
This paper investigates the use of fuzzy logic mechanisms coming from the database community, namely graded inclusions, to model the information retrieval process. In this framewor...
Patrick Bosc, Vincent Claveau, Olivier Pivert, Lau...
This paper presents the advantages of combining multiple document representation schemes for query processing of XML queries on content and structure. We show how extending the Te...
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...