It is widely believed that some queries submitted to search engines are by nature ambiguous (e.g., java, apple). However, few studies have investigated the questions of "how ...
This paper describes the user interface framework of the VizIR project ([4]). VizIR is an open project to develop a Java-based, extendible and well-documented asset framework for ...
The research proposed here concentrates on the problem of designing and developing a spoken query retrieval (SQR) system to access large document databases via voice. The main cha...
XQuery is increasingly popular among computer scientists with a SQL background, since queries in XQuery and SQL require comparable skills to be formulated. However, the number of ...
In this paper we present a formal framework and tool supporting the user in the task of formulating a precise query – which best captures their information needs – even in the ...
Enrico Franconi, Paolo Guagliardo, Marco Trevisan,...