Resource selection is an important topic in distributed information retrieval research. It can be a component of a distributed information retrieval task and can also serve as an i...
Abstract. Users often search for entities instead of documents and in this setting are willing to provide extra input, in addition to a query, such as category information and exam...
This paper suggests an alternative solution for the task of spoken document retrieval (SDR). The proposed system runs retrieval on multi-level transcriptions (word and phone) prod...
Shan Jin, Hemant Misra, Thomas Sikora, Joemon M. J...
In this paper, we propose an agent-centric approach to resource description and selection in a multiagent information retrieval (IR). In the multiagent system, each agent learns f...
Keyword search techniques that take advantage of XML structure make it very easy for ordinary users to query XML databases, but current approaches to processing these queries rely...