With the increasing number of geographical image databases on the Internet, it is a very important issue to know about the most relevant image databases for given user queries, in...
We propose a new distributed, fault-tolerant Peer-to-Peer index structure for resource discovery applications called the P-tree. P-trees efficiently support range queries in addit...
Adina Crainiceanu, Prakash Linga, Johannes Gehrke,...
Our participation in TREC 2004 aims to extend and improve the use of the DFR (Divergence From Randomness) models with Query Expansion (QE) for the robust track. We experiment with...
: Information needs like searching scientific literature that involve high recall rates are difficult to satisfy with ad hoc keyword search. We propose to state queries implicitl...