Current crawler-based search engines usually return a long list of search results containing a lot of noise documents. By indexing collected documents on topic path in taxonomy, t...
An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in Web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. To save the user's effort in manually exploring eac...
The traditional strategy performed by Information Retrieval (IR) systems is ranked keyword search: for a given query, a list of documents, ordered by relevance, is returned. Releva...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Anna Lisa Genti...
In this report we describe the approach of the University of Twente to the 2006 GeoCLEF task. It is based on retrieval by content and the subsequent filtering by geographical rele...
The pervasiveness of location-acquisition technologies (GPS, GSM networks, etc.) enable people to conveniently log the location histories they visited with spatio-temporal data. T...