This paper proposes simple techniques for handling place references in search engine queries, an important aspect of geographical information retrieval. We address not only the de...
This paper presents WikiTranslate, a system which performs query translation for cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) using only Wikipedia to obtain translations. Queries ar...
Dong Nguyen, Arnold Overwijk, Claudia Hauff, Dolf ...
The paper proposes an approach to information retrieval based on the use of a structure (ontology) both for document (resp. query) indexing and query evaluating. The conceptual st...
Although it has been shown that in test collection based studies, stemming improves retrieval effectiveness in an information retrieval system, morphological variations of queries ...
To be able to handle the ever growing volumes of XML documents, effective and efficient data management solutions are needed. Managing XML data in a relational DBMS has great pote...