With the globalization of the world markets, the need for multilingual information processing increases, because the users are increasingly forced to deal with information availab...
Conceptual information retrieval systems use structured document indices, domain knowledge and a set of heuristic retrieval strategies to match user queries with a set of indices ...
The problem of joint modeling the text and image components of multimedia documents is studied. The text component is represented as a sample from a hidden topic model, learned wi...
Nikhil Rasiwasia, Jose Costa Pereira, Emanuele Cov...
How to merge and organise query results retrieved from different resources is one of the key issues in distributed information retrieval. Some previous research and experiments su...
Data fragmentation offers various attractive alternatives to organizing and managing data, and presents interesting characteristics that may be exploited for efficient processing...