Leveraging information from relevance assessments has been proposed as an effective means for improving retrieval. We introduce a novel language modeling method which uses inform...
We consider the task of suggesting related queries to users after they issue their initial query to a web search engine. We propose a machine learning approach to learn the probab...
We present a formal framework for capturing the provenance of data appearing in XQuery views of XML. Building on previous work on relations and their (positive) query languages, w...
Abstract. The needs of efficient and flexible information retrieval on multistructural data stored in database and network are significantly growing. Especially, its flexibility pl...
In this paper, we present a novel approach to contentsbased image retrieval. The method hinges in the use of quasi-random sampling to retrieve those images in a database which are...