Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...
Term-based representations of documents have found widespread use in information retrieval. However, one of the main shortcomings of such methods is that they largely disregard le...
The dominant existing routing strategies employed in peerto-peer(P2P) based information retrieval(IR) systems are similarity-based approaches. In these approaches, agents depend o...
In this paper we describe a distributed retrieval system for medical images based on a Human Centered Virtual Machine (HCVM). HCVM layered architecture allows indexing and retrieva...
R. Castelletti, Ernesto Damiani, Giovanni Righini,...
In recent years, Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) has been recognized as an effective tool for Information Retrieval in text documents. The level of "granularity" in LSI (...