We describe a method for improving the precision of metasearch results based upon scoring the visual features of documents' surrogate representations. These surrogate scores ...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
Both Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) and Peer-toPeer (P2P) Networks are decentralized and self-organizing networks with dynamic topology and responsible for routing queries in a d...
Leonardo B. Oliveira, Isabela G. Siqueira, Daniel ...
Abstract. Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system. It tries to apply simple techniques to large amounts of text. Esfinge participated last year in the mono...
Abstract. The paradigm of pattern discovery based on constraints was introduced with the aim of providing to the user a tool to drive the discovery process towards potentially inte...