Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...
The document-length normalization problem has been widely studied in the field of Information Retrieval. The Cosine Normalization [2], the Maximum tf Normalization [1] and the By...
Sylvain Lamprier, Tassadit Amghar, Bernard Levrat,...
This paper deals with the CBIR of old printed graphics (of XVI◦ and XVII◦ centuries) like the headpieces, the pictures and the ornamental letters. These graphical parts are pre...
In this document, we describe a light-weighted ontology mediation method that allows users to send semantic queries to distant data repositories to browse for learning object meta...
When searching databases of nucleotide or protein sequences, finding a local alignment of two sequences is one of the main tasks. Since the sizes of available databases grow const...