Desktop virtual reality (VR) offers a powerful environment for visualizing structure in large information sets. In well-designed virtual worlds, users can employ skills from wayfi...
Query expansion terms are often used to enhance original query formulations in document retrieval. Such terms are usually selected from the entire documents or from windows or pas...
This paper introduces the Patent Mining Task of the Seventh NTCIR Workshop and the test collections produced in this task. The task's goal was the classification of research ...
Cross-language latent semantic indexing is a method that learns useful languageindependent vector representations of terms through a statistical analysis of a documentaligned text...
This paper proposes a novel approach to integrate heterogeneous data in P2P networks. The approach includes a tool for building P2P semantic link networks, mechanisms for peer sch...