The increase in the use of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) makes the semistructured data more and more important on the Web. To exploit the full power of XML documents, a query l...
A Community Web portal is a set of tools for a community of people who want to share information on a certain domain via the Web. The backbone of this system is an ontology which ...
Developing personalized applications for the ubiquitous Web assumes to provide different user interfaces addressing heterogeneous capabilities of device classes. Major problems are...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
This paper presents the participation of FIDJI system to the Web Question-Answering evaluation campaign organized by Quaero in 2009. FIDJI is an open-domain question-answering sys...