In large web search engines the performance of Information Retrieval systems is a key issue. Block-based compression methods are often used to improve the search performance, but c...
The vision of a Semantic Web has recently drawn considerable attention, both from academia and industry. Description Logics are often named as one of the tools that can support th...
This paper presents an ontology-based approach for web querying, using semantic metadata. We propose a query language based on ontologies and emphasize its ability to express appro...
Olivier Corby, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Catherine Faron-Z...
Abstract. This paper outlines the technical details of a prototype system for searching and browsing over a million images from the World Wide Web using their visual contents. The ...
Distributed heterogeneous search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers d...