Abstract. Content-oriented XML retrieval systems support access to XML repositories by retrieving, in response to user queries, XML document components (XML elements) instead of wh...
Authoring of multimedia content can be considered as composing media assets such as images, videos, text, and audio in time, space, and interaction into a coherent multimedia pres...
Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...
Abstract. In contrast to electronic document collections we find in contemporary digital libraries, systems applied in a cultural domain have to satisfy specific requirements wit...
Typically, users interact with database systems by formulating queries. However, many times users do not have a clear understanding of their information needs or the exact content...