In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...
We consider the use of meta-data and/or video-domain methods to detect similar videos on the web. Meta-data is extracted from the textual and hyperlink information associated with...
One important task of semantic web portals is to offer both end users and applications a seamless access to knowledge contained in heterogeneous data sources in specific user commu...
Automatic classification of web pages is an effective way to deal with the difficulty of retrieving information from the Internet. Although there are many automatic classification...