Data fusion on the Web refers to the merging, into a unified single list, of the ranked document lists, which are retrieved in response to a user query by more than one Web search...
The application of document clustering to information retrieval has been motivated by the potential effectiveness gains postulated by the Cluster Hypothesis. The hypothesis states ...
New applications from the areas of analytical data processing and data integration require powerful features to condense and reconcile available data. As outlined in [1], the gene...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Using materialized view to accelerate OLAP queries is one of the most common methods used in ROLAP systems. However, high storage and computation cost make this method very diffic...
This paper addresses the problem of automatic detection of salient video segments for real-world applications such as corporate training based on associated speech transcriptions....