Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
We present a method for searching databases of symbolically represented polyphonic music that exploits advantages of transportation distances such as continuity and partial matchi...
E-Services are becoming as promising technology for the effective automation of application integration across Web. They build upon XML, as data format for exchanging messages bet...
In this paper we will briefly describe the approaches taken by Berkeley for the main GeoCLEF 2008 tasks (Mono and Bilingual retrieval). The approach this year used probabilistic t...
We introduce a symbol reordering technique that implicitly synchronizes variable-length codes, such that it is possible to directly access the i-th codeword without need of any sam...