In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...
Noun phrases in queries are identified and classified into four types: proper names, dictionary phrases, simple phrases and complex phrases. A document has a phrase if all content...
The structural features of XML components are an extra source of information that should be used in a contentoriented retrieval task on this type of documents. This paper explores...
Abstract. This paper proposes an expert peering system for information exchange. Our objective is to develop a real-time search engine for an online community where users can ask e...
Since the XML format became a de facto standard for structured documents, the IT research and industry have developed a number of XML editors to help users produce structured docu...