A join index hierarchy method is proposed to handle the "goto's on disk" problem in objectoriented query processing. The method constructs a hierarchy of join indic...
We show how (now familiar) hierarchical representations of (convex) polyhedra can be used to answer various separation queries efficiently (in a number of cases, optimally). Our e...
This paper presents a language identification technique that detects Latin-based languages of imaged documents without OCR. The proposed technique detects languages through the wo...
The main goal of the bilingual and monolingual participation of the MIRACLE team at CLEF 2004 was testing the effect of combination approaches to information retrieval. The starti...
We address the extension of the binary search technique from sorted arrays and totally ordered sets to trees and tree-like partially ordered sets. As in the sorted array case, the...