Web search query logs contain traces of users’ search modifications. One strategy users employ is deleting terms, presumably to obtain greater coverage. It is useful to model a...
The unarguably fast, and continuous, growth of the volume of indexed (and indexable) documents on the Web poses a great challenge for search engines. This is true regarding not on...
Versioned textual collections are collections that retain multiple versions of a document as it evolves over time. Important large-scale examples are Wikipedia and the web collect...
We would like to show that the collective production of knowledge and the individual creation of its organizational casting mould, which is therefore incapable of following the gr...
We present a method for searching databases of symbolically represented polyphonic music that exploits advantages of transportation distances such as continuity and partial matchi...