With the large and increasing amount of visual information available in digital libraries and the Web, efficient and robust systems for image retrieval are urgently needed. In thi...
Is it possible to use sense inventories to improve Web search results diversity for one word queries? To answer this question, we focus on two broad-coverage lexical resources of ...
We present a gateway between the WWW and the Gnutella peer-topeer network that permits searchers on one side to be able to search and retrieve files on the other side of the gatew...
In this paper, we present an overview of extensible Retrieval, Annotation and Caching Engine (eRACE), a modular and distributed intermediary infrastructure that collects informati...
The work developed in this paper focuses on the overlap of relevant retrieved documents obtained from different combination of systems and components. Study of the impact on infor...