This paper describes our participation in the TREC Legal competition in 2008. Our first set of experiments involved the use of Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) with a small number of...
April Kontostathis, Andrew Lilly, Raymond J. Spite...
We consider the problem of wide-area large-scale text search over a peer-to-peer infrastructure. A wide-area search infrastructure with billions of documents and millions of searc...
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Peter J...
We describe the architecture of a hypertext resource discovery system using a relational database. Such a system can answer questions that combine page contents, metadata, and hyp...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Martin van den Berg, Byron Dom
Resource selection is an important topic in distributed information retrieval research. It can be a component of a distributed information retrieval task and can also serve as an i...
The relevance of distributed virtual environments (DVE) and interactive 3D worlds for entertaining and commercial purposes is steadily increasing. DVEs are typically implemented a...