Internet user forums have been proven to be effective not just as a community meeting place but also as a supporting tool for various business products. Traditional forums are desi...
This paper presents Synapse, a scalable protocol for information retrieval over the inter-connection of heterogeneous overlay networks. Applications on top of Synapse see those int...
An action research project in the state administration of Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) seeks to answer the following questions: How can we organize and present edocuments so that ...
Semantic relatedness measures quantify the degree in which some words or concepts are related, considering not only similarity but any possible semantic relationship among them. Re...
Compression of term frequency lists and very long document-id lists within an inverted file search engine are examined. Several compression schemes are compared including Elias γ...