In this paper, we address the problem of database selection for XML document collections, that is, given a set of collections and a user query, how to rank the collections based o...
There has been a great deal of interest in the past few years on ranking of results of queries on structured databases, including work on probabilistic information retrieval, rank...
Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis, Nishant Kapoor, S. ...
Term selection process is a very necessary component for most natural language processing tasks. Although different unsupervised techniques have been proposed, the best results ar...
We demonstrate the merits of using inter-document similarities for federated search. Specifically, we study a resultsmerging method that utilizes information induced from cluster...
One of the challenges of music information retrieval is the automatic extraction of effective content descriptors of music documents, which can be used at indexing and at retrieva...