Desktop search is an important part of personal information management (PIM). However, research in this area has been limited by the lack of shareable test collections, making cum...
In order to solve medical multimodal queries, we propose to split the queries in different dimensions using ontology. We extract both textual and visual terms depending on the ont...
In response to a query a search engine returns a ranked list of documents. If the query is on a popular topic (i.e., it matches many documents) then the returned list is usually t...
The World Wide Web Consortium recommends both XSLT and XQuery as query languages for XML documents. XSLT, originally designed to transform XML into XSL-FO, is nowadays a fully gro...
We examine the issues of combining multiple query representations in a single IR engine. Differing query representations are used to retrieve different documents. Thus, when combi...
Abdur Chowdhury, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen