This paper describes a new paradigm for modeling traffic levels on the world wide web (WWW) using a method of entropy maximization. This traffic is subject to the conservation con...
We measure the WT10g test collection, used in the TREC-9 and TREC 2001 Web Tracks, and the .GOV test collection used in the TREC 2002 Web and Interactive Tracks, with common measu...
The paper discusses some innovative aspects related to the integration of a framework based on Answer Set Programming in an Information Retrieval Agent, namely, the Global Search A...
Giovambattista Ianni, Francesco Calimeri, Vincenzi...
Abstract We present a fast compression and decompression scheme for natural language texts that allows e cient and exible string matching by searching the compressed text directly....
Edleno Silva de Moura, Gonzalo Navarro, Nivio Zivi...
Current search technologies work in "one size fits all" fashion. Therefore, the answer to a query is independent of specific user information need. In this paper, we des...