In order to solve problems of reliability of systems based on lexical repetition and problems of adaptability of languagedependent systems, we present a context-based topic segmen...
Though skyline queries already have claimed their place in retrieval over central databases, their application in Web information systems up to now was impossible due to the distri...
This paper introduces the concept of accessibility from the field of transportation planning and adopts it within the context of Information Retrieval (IR). An analogy is drawn bet...
The Cranfield evaluation method has some disadvantages, including its high cost in labor and inadequacy for evaluating interactive retrieval techniques. As a very promising alter...
The selection of appropriate proximity measures is one of the crucial success factors of content-based visual information retrieval. In this area of research, proximity measures ar...