Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...
: Access control is an important aspect in guaranteeing data privacy within XML data sources which are accessed by users with different access rights. The goal of predicative acces...
This paper studies cross-language cross-medium information retrieval. We introduce several approaches to unify the languages and media of queries and documents. We experiment on c...
This paper proposes simple techniques for handling place references in search engine queries, an important aspect of geographical information retrieval. We address not only the de...
A large fraction of an XML document typically consists of text data. The XPath query language allows text search via the equal, contains, and starts-with predicates. Such predicate...
Diego Arroyuelo, Francisco Claude, Sebastian Manet...