Although Web search engines have become information gateways to the Internet, for queries containing technical terms, search results often contain pages that are difficult to be ...
Two-dimensional (2-D) plots in digital documents contain important information. Often, the results of scientific experiments and performance of businesses are summarized using pl...
Xiaonan Lu, James Ze Wang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee...
Metonymic location names refer to other, related entities and possess a meaning different from the literal, geographic sense. Metonymic names are to be treated differently to im...
In this paper, we propose a set of similarity metrics for manipulating collections of values occuring in XML documents. Following the data model presented in TAX algebra, we treat...
Carina F. Dorneles, Carlos A. Heuser, Andrei E. N....
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...