Previous research on stemming has shown both positive and negative effects on retrieval performance. This paper describes an experiment in which several linguistic and non-linguis...
This paper presents domain-independent methods of spoken document retrieval. Both a continuous-speech large vocabulary recognition system, and a phone-lattice word spotter, are us...
Gareth J. F. Jones, J. T. Foote, Karen Sparck Jone...
We present a deductive data model for concept-based query expansion. It is based abstraction levels: the conceptual, the expression and the occurrence level. Concepts and their re...
Designing good user interfaces to information retrieval systems is a complex activity. The design space is large and evaluation methodologies that go beyond the classical precisio...
Information explosion across the Internet and elsewhere offers access to an increasing number of document collections. In order for users to e ectively access these collections, i...
This paper will show that Hsu and Wu’s efficient nonrepudiable threshold proxy signature scheme with known signers and Yang, Tzeng and Hwang’s efficient nonrepudiable threshol...