The fast growth of multimedia information in image and video databases has triggered research on efficient retrieval methods. This paper deals with structural queries, a type of c...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...
The initiative of standardization of MPEG Query Format (MPQF) has refueled the research around the definition of a unified query language for digital content. The goal is to provi...
In traditional peer-to-peer search networks, operations focus on properly labeled files such as music or video, and the actual search is often limited to text tags. The explosive ...
We describe the INEX 2004 participation of the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. We completely revamped our XML retrieval system, now implemented as a mixture l...