Peer-to-peer (P2P) Web search has gained a lot of interest lately, due to the salient characteristics of P2P systems, namely scalability, fault-tolerance and load-balancing. Howev...
—This paper presents a novel hybrid method for content based visual information retrieval (CBIR) that combines shape analysis of objects in image with their automatic indexing by...
Enterprises provide professionally authored content about their products/services in different languages for use in web sites and customer care. For customer care, personalization...
This paper describes the results of an observational study into the methods people use to manage web information for re-use. People observed in our study used a diversity of metho...
We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...