We show how any BSP tree TP for the endpoints of a set of n disjoint segments in the plane can be used to obtain a BSP tree of size O(n · depth(TP )) for the segments themselves, ...
Web pages (and resources, in general) can be characterized according to their geographical locality. For example, a web page with general information about wildflowers could be c...
Luis Gravano, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Richard ...
Query auto-completion (QAC) is a common feature in modern search engines. High quality QAC candidates enhance search experience by saving users time that otherwise would be spent ...
Relevance Feedback (RF) is a technique allowing to enrich an initial query according to the user feedback in order to get results closer to the user’s information need. This pape...
The paper presents a prototype of a system for querying the Web in natural language (French) for a limited domain. The domain knowledge, represented in description logics (DL), is ...