Opinion finding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially difficult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this pa...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iad...
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
A deadlock free distributed replication service for B2B CORBA based applications is presented. This service provides persistent storage for commercial transactions performed by B2...
Full-text scanning oers signicant advantages over other methods of document retrieval but is normally too slow for use on large collections. The Fujitsu AP1000 parallel distribut...
Organizing large document collections for finding information easily and quickly has always been an important user requirement. This paper describes a flexible and powerful dynami...