Information retrieval systems consist of many complicated components. Research and development of such systems is often hampered by the difficulty in evaluating how each particula...
Daniel M. Dunlavy, Dianne P. O'Leary, John M. Conr...
Modern information systems, and web information systems in particular, are faced with frequent database schema changes, which generate the necessity to manage them and preserve the...
Extraction and utilization of high-level semantic features are critical for more effective video retrieval. However, the performance of video retrieval hasn't benefited much d...
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of data placement, indexing, and querying large XML data repositories distributed over an existing P2P service infrastructure. Our archit...
Leonidas Fegaras, Weimin He, Gautam Das, David Lev...
A Question Answering (QA) system aims to return exact answers to natural language questions. While today information retrieval techniques are quite successful at locating within l...