The application of nlp techniques to improve the results of information retrieval is still considered as a controversial issue, whereas nlp techniques in cross-language informatio...
Abstract--As a growing number of web sites introduce mirrors to increase throughput, the challenge for clients becomes determining which mirror will offer the best performance when...
The Internet and the proliferation of inexpensive computing power in the form of clusters of workstations or PCs provide the basic hardware infrastructure for business to business...
This paper introduces the concept of spatial filters as an approach to increasing the relevance of the information retrieved by users of mobile information systems. This approach ...
We present a study of the degree to which annotations overlap when several researchers read the same set of scientific articles. Our objective is to determine whether there is suf...