Abstract. The structural heterogeneity and complexity of XML repositories makes query formulation challenging for users who have little knowledge of XML. To assist its users, an XM...
Keyword search techniques that take advantage of XML structure make it very easy for ordinary users to query XML databases, but current approaches to processing these queries rely...
High retrieval precision in content-based image retrieval can be attained by adopting relevance feedback mechanisms. These mechanisms require that the user judges the quality of t...
Snippets are used by almost every text search engine to complement ranking scheme in order to effectively handle user searches, which are inherently ambiguous and whose relevance ...
Abstract. The key for providing a robust context for personalized information retrieval is to build a library which gathers the long term and the short term user’s interests and ...