Desktop search is an important part of personal information management (PIM). However, research in this area has been limited by the lack of shareable test collections, making cum...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Current Information Retrieval systems use inverted index structures for efficient query processing. Due to the extremely large size of many data sets, these index structures are u...
In this paper, we propose a set of similarity metrics for manipulating collections of values occuring in XML documents. Following the data model presented in TAX algebra, we treat...
Carina F. Dorneles, Carlos A. Heuser, Andrei E. N....
This paper introduces a new approach to provide users with solutions to explore a domain via an information space. A key point in our approach is that information searching and ex...