This paper focuses on decentralized personalized search engines. It is composed of three parts. Firstly, we formulate the problem and we propose a graph-based measure of quality o...
An XML-to-relational mapping scheme consists of a procedure for shredding XML documents into relational databases, a procedure for publishing databases back as documents, and a se...
Denilson Barbosa, Juliana Freire, Alberto O. Mende...
The mediator/wrapper approach is used to integrate data from different databases and other data sources by introducing a middleware virtual database that provides high level abstr...
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...