Question answering (QA) systems aim at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents. To be considered as reliable by users, a QA system must provide element...
: This paper describes a new algorithm for merging the results of remote collections in a distributed information retrieval environment. The algorithm makes use only of the ranks o...
Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satr...
Abstract-The information era has brought with it the wellknown problem of 'Information Explosion'. There are many and varied search engines on the Internet but it is stil...
Current projects that automate the collection of provenance information use a centralized architecture for managing the resulting metadata - that is, provenance is gathered at rem...
The tremendous growth of the Internet has significantly reduced the cost of obtaining and sharing information about individuals, raising many concerns about user privacy. Spatial...