Information Retrieval Systems aim at retrieving relevant documents according to the information needs which users express. Most Information Retrieval Systems focus on passage retr...
Some applications have to present their results in the form of ranked lists. This is the case of many information retrieval applications, in which documents must be sorted accordi...
Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de Almeida, Marcos...
Nowadays, searching information in the web or in any kind of document collection has become one of the most frequent activities. However, user queries can be formulated in a way th...
Site maps are frequently provided on Web sites as a navigation support for Web users. The automatic generation of site maps is a complex task since the structure of the data, sema...
A mediator is a domain-speci c tool to support uniform access to multiple heterogeneous information sources and to abstract and combine data from different but related databases t...
Jacques Calmet, Sebastian Jekutsch, Joachim Sch&uu...