Domain specific information retrieval has become in demand. Not only domain experts, but also average non-expert users are interested in searching domain specific (e.g., medical a...
As more and more structured documents, such as SGML or XML documents become available on the Web, there is a growing demand to develop effective structured document retrieval which...
In this paper we demonstrate that speech recognition can be effectively applied to information retrieval (IR) applications. Our system exploits the fact that the intended words of...
Geographic information retrieval encompasses important tasks including finding the location of a user, and locations relevant to their search queries. Web-based search engines rec...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags that add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid quer...