An open problem for Distributed Information Retrieval systems (DIR) is how to represent large document repositories, also known as resources, both accurately and efficiently. Obt...
Government agencies must often quickly organize and analyze large amounts of textual information, for example comments received as part of notice and comment rulemaking. Hierarchi...
The Open Source mobility middleware developed in the Fuego Core project provides a stack for efficient XML processing on limited devices. Its components are a persistent map API, ...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
We present a novel indexing schema that provides efficient nearest-neighbor queries in multimedia databases consisting of objects described by multiple feature vectors. The bene...