A common limitation of many retrieval models, including the recently proposed axiomatic approaches, is that retrieval scores are solely based on exact (i.e., syntactic) matching o...
The proliferation of digital libraries and the large amount of existing documents raise important issues in efficient handling of documents. Printed texts in documents need to be...
Many documents on the Web are formated in a weakly structured format. Because of their weak semantic and because of the heterogeneity of their formats, the information conveyed by...
Focused Web browsing activities such as periodically looking up headline news, weather reports, etc., which require only selective fragments of particular Web pages, can be made m...
To support the retrieval of multimedia data according to user information needs, multimedia information retrieval in digital libraries must be based on semantics and not just prim...