Abstract-- Inverted files have been very successful for document retrieval, but sponsored search is different. Inverted files are designed to find documents that match the query (a...
This paper proposes two methods of query expansion for retrieving paraphrase candidates indexed by Kanzi (Chinese) characters. The idea is to calculate similarity between Kanzi ch...
Highly heterogeneous XML data collections that do not have a global schema, as arising, for example, in federations of digital libraries or scientific data repositories, cannot be...
This paper describes a light-weight, content-based, functional query language. The Mathematical Services Query Language (MSQL) has been developed for querying mathematical web ser...
The paper starts with a short overview on areas of application for user profiles. Subsequently a method to represent user profile in the field of document retrieval by using que...