In this paper, we describe UNED’s participation in the iCLEF 2005 track. We have compared two strategies for finding an answer using an interactive question answering system: i...
The widespread adoption of XML holds out the promise that document structure can be exploited to specify precise database queries. However, the user may have only a limited knowle...
Successfully structuring information in databases, OLAP cubes, and XML is a crucial element in managing data nowadays. However this process brought new challenges to usability. It...
Many of the problems with native XML databases relate to query performance and subsequently, it can be difficult to convince traditional database users of the benefits of using se...
Martin F. O'Connor, Zohra Bellahsene, Mark Roantre...
Large collections of scanned documents (books and journals) are now available in Digital Libraries. The most common method for retrieving relevant information from these collectio...