While streaming protocols like RTSP/RTP have continued to evolved, HTTP has remained a primary method for Web-based video retrieval. The ubiquity and simplicity of HTTP makes it a...
Abstract. All search happens in a particular context—such as the particular collection of a digital library, its associated search tasks, and its associated users. Information re...
In order to evaluate the performance of information retrieval and extraction algorithms, we need test collections. A test collection consists of a set of documents, a clearly form...
Today, information integration has assumed a completely different, complex connotation than what it used to be. The advent of the Internet, the proliferation of information source...
The paper argues for the use of general and intuitive knowledge representation languages (and simpler notational variants, e.g. subsets of natural languages) for indexing the cont...