This paper proposes simple techniques for handling place references in search engine queries, an important aspect of geographical information retrieval. We address not only the de...
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
The initiative of standardization of MPEG Query Format (MPQF) has refueled the research around the definition of a unified query language for digital content. The goal is to provi...
e about image features can be expressed as a hierarchical structure called a Type Abstraction Hierarchy (TAH). TAHs can be generated automatically by clustering algorithms based on...
Wesley W. Chu, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ricky K. Taira
In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference On Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS-04), Springer-Verlag LNAI 3055, pp. 203-216. c 2004 by Springer-Verlag. To model qu...