This paper presents an efficient parallel information retrieval (IR) system which provides fast information service for the Internet users on lowcost high-performance PC-NOW enviro...
The Carnegie Mellon University Informedia group has enjoyed consistent success with TRECVID interactive search using traditional storyboard interfaces for shot-based retrieval. Fo...
There is an apparent need for specifying the integration of multiple knowledge sources during the design of Web Information Systems (WIS) where the actual data is often retrieved f...
: This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the TopX search engine, an extensive framework for unified indexing and querying large collections of unstructured, semistructured...
We reveal that the Okapi BM25 retrieval function tends to overly penalize very long documents. To address this problem, we present a simple yet effective extension of BM25, namel...