Recently, language barrier becomes the major problem for people to search, retrieve, and understand WWW documents in different languages. This paper deals with query translation i...
: This paper presents an overview over parallel architectures for the efficient realisation of digital libraries by considering image databases as an example. The state of the art ...
The techniques of information retrieval and information extraction are complementary, but to date there has been little concrete work aimed at integrating the two. We describe how...
Ranking blog posts that express opinions regarding a given topic should serve a critical function in helping users. We explored a couple of methods for opinion retrieval in the fr...
We have conducted a user study to evaluate several generalist and health-specific search engines on health information retrieval. Users evaluated the relevance of the top 30 docum...