Because of the increasing number of electronic data, designing efficient tools to retrieve and exploit documents is a major challenge. Current search engines suffer from two main d...
Sylvie Ranwez, Vincent Ranwez, Mohameth-Fran&ccedi...
Most standard information retrieval models use a single source of information (e.g., the retrieval corpus) for query formulation tasks such as term and phrase weighting and query ...
Modern information retrieval systems need the capability to reason about the knowledge conveyed by text bases. In this paper a methodology to automatically create ontologies and cl...
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Query expansion has been shown effective for both single database retrieval and for distributed information retrieval where complete collection information is available. One might...