How to merge and organise query results retrieved from different resources is one of the key issues in distributed information retrieval. Some previous research and experiments su...
We show that a simple procedure based on maximizing the number of informative content-words can produce some of the best reported results for multi-document summarization. We fir...
The IDEX system is a prototype of an interactive dynamic Information Extraction (IE) system. A user of the system expresses an information request in the form of a topic descripti...
Organizing the results of a search facilitates the user in overviewing the information returned. We regard the clustering task as the tasks of making labels for a list of items an...
Keyword-based web query languages suffer from a lack of precision when searching for a precise kind of documents. Indeed, some documents cannot be simply characterized by a list o...