The traditional strategy performed by Information Retrieval (IR) systems is ranked keyword search: For a given query, a list of documents, ordered by relevance, is returned. Releva...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Anna Lisa Genti...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over multip...
We present a new system, called Retimm, for searching databases made of documents containing images and text. Images are indexed by colour and texture distributions.. Colour and t...
Category ranking provides a way to classify plain text documents into a pre-determined set of categories. This work proposes to have a look at typical document collections and ana...
Our work is motivated by the problem of ranking hyperlinked documents for a given query. Given an arbitrary directed graph with edge and node labels, we present a new flow-based ...