It is crucial to study basic principles that support adaptive and scalable retrieval functions in large networked environments such as the Web, where information is distributed am...
In this paper, we introduce a geographic similarity operator that computes the relatedness between two geographic places and describe how it is combined with textual ranking. The ...
We compare standard global IR searching with user-centric localized techniques to address the database selection problem. We conduct a series of experiments to compare the retriev...
This paper describes GoNTogle, a framework for document annotation and retrieval, built on top of Semantic Web and IR technologies. GoNTogle supports ontology-based annotation for ...