This paper describes the Patent Retrieval Task in the Fourth NTCIR Workshop, and the test collections produced in this task. We perform the invalidity search task, in which each p...
Most people have long term information interests. Current Web search engines satisfy immediate information needs. Specific sites support tracking of long term interests. We prese...
One problem many Web users encounter is to keep track of changes of distant Web sources. Push services, informing clients about data changes, are frequently not provided by Web ser...
The paper proposes a Distributed Open Semantic Elaboration platform based on a modular multilingual enabled architecture, which includes ontology, annotations, lexical entities an...
To support non-trivial clients, such as data exploration and analysis environments, digital libraries must be able to describe the access modes that their contents support. We pre...