There has been a large amount of research on efficient document retrieval in both IR and web search areas. One important technique to improve retrieval efficiency is early termina...
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Abstract. Increasing the number of peers in a peer-to-peer network usually increases the number of answers to a given query as well. While having more answers is nice in principle,...
Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uwe Thaden, Wolf-Ti...
We describe XVIP, an XML-based video information processing system, which extracts information from video and stores the information in a multimedia digital video library. XVIP en...
Edith C. H. Ngai, Pat Pik-Wah Chan, Edward Yau, Mi...
Keyword search enables web users to easily access XML data without the need to learn a structured query language and to study possibly complex data schemas. Existing work has addr...