Most cross language information retrieval research concentrates on language pairs for which direct, rich, and often multiple translation resources already exist. However, for most...
We present a technique for organizing data in spatial databases with non-convex domains based on an automatic characterization using the medial-axis transform (MAT). We define a t...
Eric A. Perlman, Randal C. Burns, Michael M. Kazhd...
The need for systems that can stock, represent, and provide efficient retrieval facilities of images of particular interest is becoming very high in medicine. In this respect, a l...
The Web is a valuable source of language speci c resources but the process of collecting, organizing and utilizing these resources is di cult. We describe CorpusBuilder, an approa...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...