In textual knowledge management, statistical methods prevail. Nonetheless, some difficulties cannot be overcome by these methodologies. I propose a symbolic approach using a comp...
Similarity search is an important problem in information retrieval. This similarity is based on a distance. Symbolic representation of time series has attracted many researchers re...
Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad, Pierre-Francois Mar...
Are two adjectives worth the same as a single noun when documents are ordered based on decreasing topicality? We propose an easy to interpret single number Relative Feature Utilit...
As databases increasingly integrate different types of information such as time-series, multimedia and scientific data, it becomes necessary to support efficient retrieval of mult...
: This article is a revised and extended version of [VBG, 07]. We conjecture that the digitalization of historical text documents as a basis of data mining and information retrieva...