Automatic video search based on semantic concept detectors has recently received significant attention. Since the number of available detectors is much smaller than the size of h...
A common limitation of many retrieval models, including the recently proposed axiomatic approaches, is that retrieval scores are solely based on exact (i.e., syntactic) matching o...
The exponential growth of data demands scalable infrastructures capable of indexing and searching rich content such as text, music, and images. A promising direction is to combine...
The World Wide Web (WWW) has provided us with a plethora of information. However, given its unstructured format, this information is useful mainly to humans and cannot be effectiv...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...