Relevance Feedback (RF) is a technique allowing to enrich an initial query according to the user feedback in order to get results closer to the user’s information need. This pape...
Abstract. In order to organize huge document collections, labeled hierarchical structures are used frequently. Users are most efficient in navigating such hierarchies, if they refl...
Document expansion and query expansion aim to add related terms into document and query representations in order to make them more complete. However, most previous studies are lim...
Component Based Development aims at constructing software through the inter-relationship between pre-existing components. However, these components should be bound to a specific a...
Abstract. The single-system approach is no longer sufficient to handle the load on popular Internet servers, especially for those offering extensive multimedia content. Such servic...