One aspect in which retrieving named entities is different from retrieving documents is that the items to be retrieved – persons, locations, organizations – are only indirect...
We study the evaluation of opinion retrieval systems. Opinion retrieval is a relatively new research area, nevertheless classical evaluation measures, those adopted for ad hoc ret...
Giambattista Amati, Giuseppe Amodeo, Valerio Capoz...
Many Web services operate their own Web crawlers to discover data of interest, despite the fact that largescale, timely crawling is complex, operationally intensive, and expensive...
Jonathan M. Hsieh, Steven D. Gribble, Henry M. Lev...
This paper shows how to build a scalable, robust and efficient distributed Internet-scale RDF repository, that we name PAGE (Put And Get Everywhere). 1 Motivation In the recent yea...
Emanuele Della Valle, Andrea Turati, Alessandro Gh...
The long-term goals of the recently started Biomedia project at SFSU are to provide multimedia information systems and applications for the research and education needs of several...
E. Lank, Dragutin Petkovic, F. A. Ramirez-Weber, J...