We present a static index pruning method, to be used in ad-hoc document retrieval tasks, that follows a documentcentric approach to decide whether a posting for a given term shoul...
In this report we describe the approach of the University of Twente to the 2006 GeoCLEF task. It is based on retrieval by content and the subsequent filtering by geographical rele...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...
In professional environments which are characterized by a domain (Medicine, Law, etc.), information retrieval systems must be able to process precise queries, mostly because of the...
—We consider the problem of inferring and modeling topics in a sequence of documents with known publication dates. The documents at a given time are each characterized by a topic...
Iulian Pruteanu-Malinici, Lu Ren, John William Pai...