Although commonly used in both commercial and experimental information retrieval systems, thesauri have not demonstrated consistent bene ts for retrieval performance, and it is di...
This paper describes the results of some experiments using a new approach to information access that combines techniques from natural language processing and knowledge representat...
William A. Woods, Lawrence A. Bookman, Ann Houston...
We propose to use MapReduce to quickly test new retrieval approaches on a cluster of machines by sequentially scanning all documents. We present a small case study in which we use...
We propose an approach to content-based Distributed Information Retrieval based on the periodic and incremental centralisation of full-content indices of widely dispersed and auto...
Fabio Simeoni, Murat Yakici, Steve Neely, Fabio Cr...
With the globalization of the world markets, the need for multilingual information processing increases, because the users are increasingly forced to deal with information availab...