Web search engines help users find useful information on the WWW. However, when the same query is submitted by different users, typical search engines return the same result regar...
This paper reports on the participation of ITC-irst in the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2003; in particular, in the monolingual, bilingual, small multilingual, and spoken docum...
Motivated by the hypothesis that the retrieval performance of a weighting model is independent of the language in which queries and collection are expressed, we compared the retrie...
Abstract. Database systems (DBSs) can play an essential role in facilitating the query and cache management in context-aware mobile information systems (CAMIS). Two of the fundamen...
Today XML is an essential technology for knowledge management within enterprises and dissemination of data over the Web. Therefore the efficient evaluation of XML queries has been ...