As recently as the 1990s, studies showed that most people preferred getting information
from other people rather than from information retrieval systems. Of course, in that time …

Introduction to Information Retrieval is the first textbook with a coherent treatment of classical
and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text …

Clustering is a challenging topic in the area of Web data management. Various forms of
clustering are required in a wide range of applications, including finding mirrored Web …

Several methods have been proposed to evaluate queries over a native XML DBMS, where
the queries specify both path and keyword constraints. These broadly consist of graph …

XML retrieval is a departure from standard document retrieval in which each individual XML
element, ranging from italicized words or phrases to full blown articles, is a potentially …

La nature de sources d'information évolue, et les documents numériques traditionnels plats
ne contenant que du texte s' enrichissent d'information structurelle et multimédia. Cette …

XML enables to encode semantics in full text documents through XML tags. While query
results on corpora of full text documents is typically a sorted list of ranked documents, this …

Emerging applications such as personalized portals, enterprise search, and web integration
systems often require keyword search over semi-structured views. However, traditional …

We propose effective multimodal fusion strategies for video search. Multimodal search is a
widely applicable information-retrieval problem, and fusion strategies are essential to the …

XML retrieval is a departure from standard document retrieval in which each individual XML
element, ranging from italicized words or phrases to full blown articles, is a retrievable unit …