In an environment of distributed text collections, the first step in the information retrieval process is to identify which of all available collections are more relevant to a giv...
We developed measures relating feature vector distributions to speaker recognition (SR) performances for performance prediction and potential arbitrary data selection for SR. We ex...
We investigate three issues in distributed information retrieval, considering both TREC data and U.S. Patents: (1) topical organization of large text collections, (2) collection r...
Leah S. Larkey, Margaret E. Connell, James P. Call...
Publish/subscribe (P/S) is a communication paradigm of growing popularity for information dissemination in largescale distributed systems. The strong decoupling between informatio...
In recent years, there has been an explosion of publicly available RDF and OWL data sources. In order to effectively and quickly answer queries in such an environment, we present...