An expert finding system allows a user to type a simple text query and retrieve names and contact information of individuals that possess the expertise expressed in the query. Thi...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
The paper focuses on investigating the combined use of semantic and structural information of programs to support the comprehension tasks involved in the maintenance and reenginee...
Figures in digital documents contain important information. Current digital libraries do not summarize and index information available within figures for document retrieval. We pr...
Xiaonan Lu, James Ze Wang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee...
Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) between languages of the same origin is an interesting topic of research. The similarity of the writing systems used for these language...