Ontologies represent a method of formally expressing a shared understanding of information, and have been seen by many authors as a prerequisite for the "Semantic web". ...
In the conventional Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, many research projects or practical applications still use the keyword-based retrieval methods in the information searching compon...
Abstract. Advances in web technology have given rise to new information retrieval applications. In this paper, we present a model for geographical region search and call this class...
In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
The gap between the user's information need and query is expanding due to the pervasiveness of Web search. Multimedia question answering is restricted by disjoint infrastruct...