The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...
Applying learning techniques to acquire action models is an area of intense research interest. Most previous works in this area have assumed that there is a significant amount of...
In this paper we describe a model of social and collaborative search based on the use of tags. First we will introduce the issues that drove us to the definition of this model, an...
Result diversity is a topic of great importance as more facets of queries are discovered and users expect to find their desired facets in the first page of the results. However,...
Ranking for multilingual information retrieval (MLIR) is a task to rank documents of different languages solely based on their relevancy to the query regardless of query’s langu...