While there are many proposals for path indexes on XML documents, none of them is perfectly suited for indexing large-scale collections of interlinked XML documents. Existing strat...
Different models have been proposed recently for representing temporal data, tracking historical information, and recovering the state of the document as of any given time, in XM...
Alberto O. Mendelzon, Flavio Rizzolo, Alejandro A....
Abstract This paper presents a method for combining query-relevance with information-novelty in the context of text retrieval and summarization. The Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR...
Web documents present new challenges to conventional Information Retrieval (IR) technologies. This paper describes how these challenges are faced in FameIR, a multilingual multime...
The University of Maryland participated in three TREC-6 tasks: ad hoc retrieval, cross-language retrieval, and spoken document retrieval. The principal focus of the work was evalu...