Peer-to-peer (P2P) Web search has gained a lot of interest lately, due to the salient characteristics of P2P systems, namely scalability, fault-tolerance and load-balancing. Howev...
Abstract. The original purpose of Web metadata was to protect endusers from possible harmful content and to simplify search and retrieval. However they can also be exploited in mor...
Abstract. Search engines are becoming such an easy way to find textual resources that we wish to use them also for multimedia content; however, syntactic techniques, even if promi...
Irene Celino, Emanuele Della Valle, Dario Cerizza,...
Web applications increasingly utilize search techniques that heavily rely on content-based text and image analyses. For example, for parental site filtering, it is necessary to id...
Semantic similarity measures play important roles in information retrieval and Natural Language Processing. Previous work in semantic web-related applications such as community mi...