Successfully structuring information in databases, OLAP cubes, and XML is a crucial element in managing data nowadays. However this process brought new challenges to usability. It...
In this paper the XML Information Retrieval System PF/Tijah is applied to retrieval tasks on large spoken document collections. The used example setting is the English CLEF-2006 CL...
Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra, Roeland Ordelman, Laur...
Well-designed indices can dramatically improve query performance. Including query workload information can produce indices that yield better overall throughput while balancing the...
We consider the retrieval of XML-structured documents, and of passages from such documents, defined as elements of the XML structure. These are considered from the point of view of...
Modeling objects by probability density functions (pdf) is a new powerful method to represent complex objects in databases. By representing an object as a pdf, e.g. a Gaussian, it...