Emails are examples of structured documents with various fields. These fields can be exploited to enhance the retrieval effectiveness of an Information Retrieval (IR) system th...
The probabilistic formalism of quantum physics is said to provide a sound basis for building a principled information retrieval framework. Such a framework can be based on the not...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas...
—Clustering techniques create hierarchal network structures, called clusters, on an otherwise flat network. In a dynamic environment—in terms of node mobility as well as in ter...
Matthias R. Brust, Adrian Andronache, Steffen Roth...
Most image retrieval systems only allow a fragment of text or an example image as a query. Most users have more complex information needs that are not easily expressed in either of...
We present a new multi-dimensional data structure, which we call the skip quadtree (for point data in R2) or the skip octree (for point data in Rd, with constant d > 2). Our da...
David Eppstein, Michael T. Goodrich, Jonathan Z. S...