Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2008 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
Ontology mapping seeks to find semantic correspondences between similar elements of different ontologies. This paper proposes a neural network based approach to search for a globa...
This paper presents a novel approach for searching images online using textual queries and presenting the resulting images based on both conceptual and visual similarities. Given a...
Grant Strong, Enamul Hoque, Minglun Gong, Orland H...
Web services are rapidly emerging as a popular standard for sharing data and functionality among heterogeneous systems. We propose a general purpose Web Service Management System (...