In order to return relevant search results, a search engine must keep its local repository synchronized to the Web, but it is usually impossible to attain perfect freshness. Hence...
This paper presents a framework for user-oriented text mining. It is then illustrated with an example of discovering knowledge from competitors’ websites. The knowledge to be di...
We introduce the Ranked Feature Fusion framework for information retrieval system design. Typical information retrieval formalisms such as the vector space model, the bestmatch mo...
This report outlines our participation in CLEF-IP's 2009 prior art search task. In the task's initial year our focus lay on the automatic generation of effective queries...
This paper presents a novel fault detection and section estimation method for unbalanced underground distribution systems (UDS). The method proposed is based on artificial neural n...
Karen Rezende Caino de Oliveira, Rodrigo Hartstein...