In many retrieval tasks, one important goal involves retrieving a diverse set of results (e.g., documents covering a wide range of topics for a search query). First of all, this r...
Never before have so many information sources been available. Most are accessible on-line and some exist on the Internet alone. However, this large information quantity makes inte...
The recent explosion of on-line information in Digital Libraries and on the World Wide Web has given rise to a number of query-based search engines and manually constructed topica...
Mehran Sahami, Salim Yusufali, Michelle Q. Wang Ba...
The traditional strategy performed by Information Retrieval (IR) systems is ranked keyword search: For a given query, a list of documents, ordered by relevance, is returned. Releva...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Anna Lisa Genti...
Similarity search in time series databases usually deals with comparing entire time series objects or subsequence search. In this paper, we formalize the notion of interval-focused...