Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Several IR tasks rely, to achieve high efficiency, on a single pervasive data structure called the inverted index. This is a mapping from the terms in a text collection to the docu...
Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
Abstract— The composition of network management information is a feature widely required but not properly supported in traditional management technologies. In the last years, Web...
Ricardo Lemos Vianna, Maria Janilce Bosquiroli Alm...
Data retrieved from body sensors such as ECG machines and new-generation multi-sensor systems such as respiratory monitors are varied and abundant. Managing and integrating this s...
Alfonso F. Cardenas, Raymond K. Pon, Robert B. Cam...