Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciļ¬c search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userā...
This tutorial provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of general techniques to efficiently support similarity queries in spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and multimedi...
Many web-search queries serve as the beginning of an exploration of an unknown space of information, rather than looking for a speciļ¬c web page. To answer such queries eļ¬ectiv...
This paper describes the architecture of a BulgarianāBulgarian question answering system ā BulQA. The system relies on a partially parsed corpus for answer extraction. The que...
The range searching problem is fundamental in a wide spectrum of applications such as radio frequency identiļ¬cation (RFID) networks, location based services (LBS), and global po...