Our participation in TREC 2003 aims to adapt the use of the DFR (Divergence From Randomness) models with Query Expansion (QE) to the robust track and the topic distillation task o...
Giambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Ro...
Current search engines crawl the Web, download content, and digest this content locally. For multimedia content, this involves considerable volumes of data. Furthermore, this proc...
When a query is submitted to a search engine, the search engine returns a dynamically generated result page containing the result records, each of which usually consists of a link...
Virtual communities are a popular phenomenon today. They are significantly altering the specifics of how people work, spend their free time and interact socially. Moreover, they h...
This paper presents a simple and adaptable matching method dealing with web directories, catalogs and OWL ontologies. By using a well-known Knowledge Discovery in Databases model,...