The identification of categories in image databases usually relies on clustering algorithms that only exploit the feature-based similarities between images. The addition of semant...
Query expansion is a well-known technique that has been shown to improve average retrieval performance. This technique has not been used in many operational systems because of the...
The recent enormous increase in the use of networked information access and on-line databases has led to more databases being available in languages other than English. The Center...
Cross language information retrieval is a field of study that has received significant research attention, resulting in systems that despite the errors of automatic translation (f...
Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough, Catherine Paterson, W...
We consider the problem of query evaluation in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems that support semantic-based retrieval services. We confine ourselves to the case where the peers employ t...