In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
In this paper, we present ACTIVe3D-Build, an electronic platform for the management of civil engineering projects. This platform is the result of a research that aims to represent...
The lack of a large scale Chinese test collection is an obstacle to the Chinese information retrieval development. In order to address this issue, we built such a collection compos...
Given the heterogeneous nature of biological data and their intensive use in many tools, in this paper we propose a semantic data access and integration (DAI) service, based on th...
Giovanni Aloisio, Massimo Cafaro, Italo Epicoco, S...