Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...
The semantic web is based on ontologies and metadata that indexes resources using ontologies. This indexing is called annotation. Ontology based information retrieval is an operati...
Web page classification is important to many tasks in information retrieval and web mining. However, applying traditional textual classifiers on web data often produces unsatisfyi...
In TREC 2004, the Database and Information System Lab (DBIS) at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) participates in the robust track, which is a traditional ad hoc retrieval t...
In cooperative peer-to-peer information retrieval systems, each node can be considered an intelligent agent and these agents work collectively to provide an information retrieval ...