In order to resolve multi-dimentional queries, we propose a conceptual indexing based on a medical meta thesaurus (UMLS). We study the impact of this indexing compared to a words-b...
In the context of web search engines, the escalation between ranking techniques and spamdexing techniques has led to the appearance of faked contents in web pages. If random sequen...
In order to search within corpora written in two or more languages, the simplest and most effective approach is to translate the submitted request into the required language(s). To...
Information searching in non-textual media is a fundamental point of interest, especially in the audiovisual industry where there is still an important need of tools for manipulati...
ABSTRACT. In the framework of the LegDoc project at Xerox Research Centre Europe, we are developing components for the semantic annotation of semi-structured documents. While certa...
This article focusses on images retrieval in XML documents. Images retrieval can use sementical information in addition to visual features. We propose here to explore some ideas to...
In this paper, we propose a fuzzy model to querying the XML documents, by taking into account not only the document contents, but also their structure. The concept of minimal size ...