Blogs are a new form of internet phenomenon and a vast everincreasing information resource. Mining blog files for information is a very new research direction in data mining. We p...
In this work, we study similarity measures for text-centric XML documents based on an extended vector space model, which considers both document content and structure. Experimenta...
In this paper we discuss the integration of different GIR systems by means of a fuzzy Borda method for result fusion. Two of the systems, the one by the Universidad Polit
We assess a family of ranking mechanisms for search engines based on linkage analysis using a carefully engineered subset of the World Wide Web, WT10g (Bailey, Craswell and Hawking...
The EU project Twenty-One will support cross language queries in a multilingual document base. A prototype version of the Twenty-Onesystem has been subjected to the Cross Language...