We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...
Accessing information sources to retrieve data requested by a user can be expensive, especially when dealing with distributed information sources. One way to reduce this cost is t...
An ordinal fuzzy linguistic Information Retrieval System (IRS) based on a multi-level weighting scheme to represent the user queries, in a more flexible way, is proposed. The IRS a...
Use of semantic content is one of the major issues which needs to be addressed for improving image retrieval effectiveness. We present a new approach to classify images based on t...
How to merge and organise query results retrieved from different resources is one of the key issues in distributed information retrieval. Some previous research and experiments su...