Full-text information retrieval systems have traditionally been designed for archival environments. They often provide little or no support for adding new documents to an existing...
Abstract. We propose an approach to Distributed Information Retrieval based on the periodic and incremental centralisation of full-text indices of widely dispersed and autonomously...
Fabio Simeoni, Murat Yakici, Steve Neely, Fabio Cr...
XML query processing is one of the most active areas of database research. Although the main focus of past research has been the processing of structural XML queries, there are gro...
We present a demo of ESTER, a search engine that combines the ease of use, speed and scalability of full-text search with the powerful semantic capabilities of ontologies. ESTER s...
: Because digital libraries are expensive to create and maintain, Internet analogs of public libraries--reliable, quality, community services--have only recently begun to appear. A...
Ian H. Witten, Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Sally Jo C...