Translingual information retrieval (TLIR) consists of providing a query in one language and searching document collections in one or more di erent languages. This paper introduces...
Yiming Yang, Jaime G. Carbonell, Ralf D. Brown, Ro...
Background: Existing biological databases support a variety of queries such as keyword or definition search. However, they do not provide any measure of relevance for the instance...
Arpeggio is a peer-to-peer file-sharing network based on the Chord lookup primitive. Queries for data whose metadata matches a certain criterion are performed efficiently by using...
Austin T. Clements, Dan R. K. Ports, David R. Karg...
Search engines provide a small window to the vast repository of data they index and against which they search. They try their best to return the documents that are of relevance to...
We give semantic characterizations of the expressive power of navigational XPath (also called Core XPath) in terms of first order logic. XPath can be used to specify sets of nodes...