In many different applications on the Web, distributed agents would like to discover and access high quality information sources. This is a challenging problem since an agent does...
Abstract. This paper proposes a novel method for speaker identification based on both speech utterances and their transcribed text. The transcribed text of each speaker's utte...
The amount of scientific material available electronically is forever increasing. This makes reading the published literature, whether to stay up-to-date on a topic or to get up ...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...
This paper addresses several aspects related to the distribution of content. The first aim is to provide an overview of the Universal Multimedia Access (UMA) concept. The primary...