Publish/subscribe middleware provides efficient support for loosely coupled communication in distributed systems. A number of different distributed message-filtering algorithms hav...
Abstract. This paper describes the experience of QAST 2008, the second time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcri...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Lori Lamel...
In many different application areas, e.g. space observation systems or engineering systems of world-wide operating companies, there is a need for an efficient distributed intersect...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
This paper reports the participation of the XLDB Group from the University of Lisbon in the CLEF 2006 ad-hoc monolingual and bilingual subtasks for Portuguese. We present our IR s...
This paper presents a geo-temporal gazetteer Web service that provides access to names of places and historical periods, together with the associated geotemporal information. With...