Background: Advances in biotechnology and in high-throughput methods for gene analysis have contributed to an exponential increase in the number of scientific publications in thes...
Measuring effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems is essential for research and development and for monitoring search quality in dynamic environments. In this study, w...
We study visibly pushdown automata (VPA) models for expressing and evaluating queries, expressed using MSO formulas, on words with a nesting structure (like XML documents). We deļ...
Recent research has had some success using the length of time a user displays a document in their web browser as implicit feedback for document preference. However, most studies h...
As ancient documents are being digitized, systems for retrieving documents or images can now be found in Digital Libraries. With regard to illustrations, the content-based image r...