The inclusion of document length factors has been a major topic in the development of retrieval models. We believe that current models can be further improved by more refined est...
Documents are recommended by computer-based systems normally according to their prominence in the document reference network. Based on the requirements identified in a concrete u...
Recent work has demonstrated that the assessment of pairwise object similarity can be approached in an axiomatic manner using information theory. We extend this concept specifica...
Complex web information structures prevent search engines from providing satisfactory context-sensitive retrieval. We see that in order to overcome this obstacle, it is essential t...
With the growing significance of digital libraries and the Internet, more and more electronic texts become accessible to a wide and geographically disperse public. This requires a...
Ulrich Schiel, Ianna M. S. F. de Sousa, Edberto Fe...