XQuery is widely used for querying XML documents. Within this paper, we examine optimization rules for XQuery queries that exploit type information of the input XML document given ...
This report describes the approach used in our participation of ImageCLEF. Our focus is on image retrieval using text, i.e. Cross-Media IR. To do this, we first determine the str...
Carmen Alvarez, Ahmed Id Oumohmed, Max Mignotte, J...
We propose a novel probabilistic method based on the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to learn the structure of a Latent Variable Model (LVM) for query language modeling. In the proposed...
Since multimedia information is characterized by motley types of media with different properties, multimedia content retrieval in digital libraries requires dynamic reconfigurable...
Panagiotis Karagiannis, Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Geor...
Traditional information retrieval (IR) systems respond to user queries with ranked lists of relevant documents. The separation of content and structure in XML documents allows indi...