A virtual database system is software that provides unified access to multiple information sources. If the sources are overlapping in their contents and independently maintained,...
This paper describes the participation of the University of Alicante in the new CL-SR Track at CLEF conference. In this track we introduce a set of features in the topics processi...
Rafael M. Terol, Manuel Palomar, Patricio Mart&iac...
Increasing applications are demanding effective and efficient support to perform retrieval in large collections of digital images. The work presented here is an early stage resear...
Giovanna Castellano, Gianluca Sforza, Maria Alessa...
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
The availability of a document’s logical structure in XML retrieval allows retrieval systems to return document portions (elements) instead of whole documents. This helps searche...