While the information resources on the Web are vast, the sources are often hard to find, painful to use, and difficult to integrate. We have developed the Heracles framework for b...
Abstract—Recent progress in research fields such as Information Extraction and Information Retrieval enables the creation of systems providing better search experiences to web u...
Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Firan, Mihai George...
Topics in prior-art patent search are typically full patent applications and relevant items are patents often taken from sources in different languages. Cross language patent retr...
For this year's Image CLEF Photo Retrieval task, we have prepared 5 submission runs to help us assess the effectiveness of 1) image content-based retrieval, and 2) textbased ...
Federated text search provides a unified search interface for multiple search engines of distributed text information sources. Resource selection is an important component for fed...