Abstract. In order to be useful, intelligent information retrieval agents must provide their users with context-relevant information. This paper presents WordSieve, an algorithm fo...
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 ...
Query expansion has been shown effective for both single database retrieval and for distributed information retrieval where complete collection information is available. One might...
—Mind maps are used by millions of people. In this paper we present how information retrieval on mind maps could be used to enhance expert search, document summarization, keyword...
Abstract. As a low-cost ressource that is up-to-date, Wikipedia recently gains attention as a means to provide cross-language brigding for information retrieval. Contradictory to a...
In recent years, several information retrieval methods using information about the Web-links are developed, such as HITS and Trawling. In order to analyze the Web-links dividing i...
In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...
e-Government services are emerging rapidly in the developing world. Many countries use e-Government as an enabling tool to increase efficiency, enhance transparency, collect more ...
Vasileios Zarimpas, Maria Grouztidou, Despina Anas...