In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
We study the problem of continuous monitoring of top-k queries over multiple non-synchronized streams. Assuming a sliding window model, this general problem has been a well addres...
Indexing XML is crucial for efficient XML query processing. We propose a compact tree (Ctree) for XML indexing, which provides not only concise path summaries at group level but a...
In large scale online systems like Search, eCommerce, or social network applications, user queries represent an important dimension of activities that can be used to study the imp...
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...