In this paper, we present an extension of PHIL, a declarative language for filtering information from XML data. The proposed approach allows us to extract relevant data as well a...
The Cranfield evaluation method has some disadvantages, including its high cost in labor and inadequacy for evaluating interactive retrieval techniques. As a very promising alter...
People are thirsty for medical information. Existing Web search engines often cannot handle medical search well because they do not consider its special requirements. Often a medi...
Many computer vision and pattern recognition algorithms are very sensitive to the choice of an appropriate distance metric. Some recent research sought to address a variant of the...
To support users in querying geographic databases we have developed a system that lets people sketch what they are looking for. It closes the gap between user and information syst...