An open problem for Distributed Information Retrieval systems (DIR) is how to represent large document repositories, also known as resources, both accurately and efficiently. Obt...
This paper presents a concept for the integration of quantitative and qualitative information sources with their accompanying management support functionalities from navigation and...
This paper summarizes the work done at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the GeoCLEF 2006 track. The approach presented uses pure IR techniques (indexing of sing...
Miguel E. Ruiz, June M. Abbas, David Mark, Stuart ...
This paper describes the development of practical automatic metadata assignment tools to support automatic record creation for virtual libraries, metadata repositories and digital...
Social (or folksonomic) tagging has become a very popular way to describe content within Web 2.0 websites. However, as tags are informally defined, continually changing, and ungo...
Giovanni Quattrone, Licia Capra, Pasquale De Meo, ...