In the experiment described in this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a document-independent technique for eliciting additional information from searchers about their inf...
Given a spatial crime data warehouse, that is updated infrequently and a set of operations O as well as constraints of storage and update overheads, the index type selection probl...
Pradeep Mohan, Ronald E. Wilson, Shashi Shekhar, B...
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...
Image annotations allow users to access a large image database with textual queries. There have been several studies on automatic image annotation utilizing machine learning techn...
To deal with the problem of empty or too little answers returned from a Web database in response to a user query, this paper proposes a novel approach to provide relevant and rank...