As the most pervasive method of individual identification and document authentication, signatures present convincing evidence and provide an important form of indexing for effectiv...
Text search engines return a set of k documents ranked by similarity to a query. Typically, documents and queries are drawn from natural language text, which can readily be partiti...
J. Shane Culpepper, Gonzalo Navarro, Simon J. Pugl...
The effects of word recognition errors (WRE) in Spoken Document Retrieval have been well studied and well reported in recent Information Retrieval (IR) literature. Much less exper...
In this paper, we study the problem of effective keyword search over XML documents. We begin by introducing the notion of Valuable Lowest Common Ancestor (VLCA) to accurately and ...
Typically, users submit very simple search queries to digital document data collections. Often these queries can result in extremely broad answers or answers in which document rel...