With the globalization of the world markets, the need for multilingual information processing increases, because the users are increasingly forced to deal with information availab...
This paper experimentally studies approaches to the problem of ranking information resources w.r.t. user queries in peer-to-peer information retrieval. In distributed environments...
In order to support various requirements from the user’s perspective, digital library (DL) systems may need to apply a large variety of services, such as query services for a spe...
We have in a previous paper introduced the new query operators that are needed in order to support an XML query language that supports temporal operations. The query operators mak...
This paper describes our participation to the English Girt Task of CLEF 2005 Campaign. A method for conceptual indexing based on WordNet is used. Both documents and queries are map...