Peer-to-peer network overlays have mostly been designed to support search over document names, identifiers, or keywords from a small or controlled vocabulary. In this paper we pro...
In this paper, we present the results of an investigation into methodologies and technical solutions for exposing the structured metadata contained within digital qualitative data...
In this paper we introduce a machine learning approach for automatic text segmentation. Our text segmenter clusters text-segments containing similar concepts. It first discovers th...
The combination of evidence for Information Retrieval has been studied extensively in order to increase effectiveness. In this paper, we study the selective application of differe...
We introduce a new method for automatically constructing concept hierarchies where the concept nodes follow a generalization / specialization relation. Starting from a set of conc...