In information-integration systems, sources may have diverse and limited query capabilities. In this paper we show that because sources have restrictions on retrieving their infor...
Index compression techniques are known to substantially decrease the storage requirements of a text retrieval system. As a side-effect, they may increase its retrieval performanc...
Abstract. Sharing of structured data in decentralized environments is a challenging problem, especially in the absence of a global schema. Social network structures map network lin...
Verena Kantere, Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Timos K. Sell...
A number of metadata standards have been published in recent years due to the increasing availability of multimedia content and the resulting issue of sorting and retrieving this ...
Matthias Gruhne, Christian Uhle, Christian Dittmar...
The paper reviews the TREC Programme up to TREC-6 (1997), considering the test results, the substantive findings for IR that follow, and the lessons TREC offers for IR evaluation....