This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...
This poster investigates the use of theoretical benchmarks to describe the matching functions of XML retrieval systems and the properties of specificity and exhaustivity in XML r...
Abstract--User-system interaction is sometimes a cumbersome element of non-textual information access. Image retrieval systems now incorporate various interaction mechanisms. Howev...
The simple access to texts on digital libraries and the WWW has led to an increased number of plagiarism cases in recent years, which renders manual plagiarism detection infeasibl...
We describe here a method for automatically identifying word sense variation in a dated collection of historical books in a large digital library. By leveraging a small set of kno...