Top-k queries on large multi-attribute data sets are fundamental operations in information retrieval and ranking applications. In this paper, we initiate research on the anytime b...
Benjamin Arai, Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Ni...
In many text retrieval tasks, it is highly desirable to obtain a "similarity profile" of the document collection for a given query. We propose sampling-based techniques ...
The problem of trajectory similarity has been recently attracted research interest considerably, due to its importance in diverse fields. In this work, we study trajectory similar...
For the participation of the University of Alicante in the first cross-language Geographic Information Retrieval, we have developed a system made up of three modules. One of them...
In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...