Commonsense knowledge often omits the temporal incidence of facts, and even the ordering between occurrences is only available for some of their instances. Reasoning about the temp...
Abstract. With increasing volumes of data, much effort has been devoted to finding the most suitable answer to an information need. However, in many domains, the question whether a...
We consider a fundamental problem in data structures, static predecessor searching: Given a subset S of size n from the universe [m], store S so that queries of the form “What i...
In an environment of distributed text collections, the first step in the information retrieval process is to identify which of all available collections are more relevant to a giv...
Abstract. The widespread adoption of XML necessitates structureaware systems that can effectively retrieve information from XML document collections. This paper reports on the par...
Jovan Pehcevski, James A. Thom, Seyed M. M. Tahagh...