Component Based Development aims at constructing software through the inter-relationship between pre-existing components. However, these components should be bound to a specific a...
Structured documents contain elements defined by the author(s) and annotations assigned by other people or processes. Structured documents pose challenges for probabilistic retrie...
We research whether the inclusion of information about an information user's social environment and his position in the social network of his peers leads to an improval in sea...
Sebastian Marius Kirsch, Melanie Gnasa, Armin B. C...
This paper explores the use of texts that are related to an image collection, also known as collateral texts, for building thesauri in specialist domains to aid in image retrieval....
Despite its intuitive appeal, the hypothesis that retrieval at the level of “concepts” should outperform purely term-based approaches remains unverified empirically. In addit...