Abstract. It the becomes possible that users can get kinds of information by just inputting search keyword(s) representing the topic which users are interested in. But it is not al...
Abstract. There is a significant commercial and research interest in locationbased web search engines. Given a number of search keywords and one or more locations that a user is in...
Abstract. Nearest neighbor search has a wide variety of applications. Unfortunately, the majority of search methods do not scale well with dimensionality. Recent efforts have been ...
Metric access methods (MAMs) serve as a tool for speeding similarity queries. However, all MAMs developed so far are index-based; they need to build an index on a given database. T...
Abstract. In this paper we study the performance of linguisticallymotivated conflation techniques for Information Retrieval in Spanish. In particular, we have studied the applicat...