The bottleneck for dictionary-based cross-language information retrieval is the lack of comprehensive dictionaries, in particular for many different languages. We here introduce a...
Mediators – used in federated information systems – provide a homogeneous read-only access to a set of autonomous information sources. To achieve semantic integration of the h...
The bag of words representation (BoW), which is widely used in information retrieval (IR), represents documents and queries as word lists that do not express anything about context...
This paper investigates the role of language in accessing information on the Internet. We combined data about website visitors through log-file analysis with data about web-hosts ...
Abstract. As a consequence of the success of the Web, methodologies for information system development need to consider systems that use the Web paradigm. These Web Information Sys...
Geert-Jan Houben, Peter Barna, Flavius Frasincar, ...