Although keyword query enables inexperienced users to easily search XML database with no specific knowledge of complex structured query languages or XML data schemas, the ambigui...
Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...
Queries submitted to a retrieval system are often ambiguous. In such a situation, a sensible strategy is to diversify the ranking of results to be retrieved, in the hope that users...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, I...
In the recent years distributed architectures and P2P technology have been adopted to better support effective collaboration among networked organizations. According to the P2P pa...
Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Me...
In this paper we present and discuss the system we developed for the search task of the TRECVID 2002, and its evaluation in an interactive search task. To do this we will look at ...
Georgina Gaughan, Alan F. Smeaton, Cathal Gurrin, ...