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TSD
2007
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Using Query-Relevant Documents Pairs for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
The world wide web is a natural setting for cross-lingual information retrieval. The European Union is a typical example of a multilingual scenario, where multiple users have to de...
David Pinto, Alfons Juan, Paolo Rosso
HPCN
1998
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
PARAFLOW: A Dataflow Distributed Data-Computing System
We describe the Paraflow system for connecting heterogeneous computing services together into a flexible and efficient data-mining metacomputer. There are three levels of parallel...
Roy Williams, Bruce Sears
GIS
2008
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
Mapping geographic coverage of the web
In this paper, we describe a methodology to estimate the geographic coverage of the web without the need for secondary knowledge or complex geo-tagging. This is achieved by random...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Ross S. Purves, Floria...
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ICDE
2005
IEEE
123views Database» more  ICDE 2005»
16 years 20 days ago
Load and Network Aware Query Routing for Information Integration
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
ERCIMDL
2005
Springer
148views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2005»
16 years 18 days ago
Active Support for Query Formulation in Virtual Digital Libraries: A Case Study with DAFFODIL
Daffodil is a front-end to federated, heterogeneous digital libraries targeting at strategic support of users during the information seeking process. This is done by offering a va...
André Schaefer, Matthias Jordan, Claus-Pete...