The exponential growth of data sizes created by digital media (video/audio/images), physicalsimulations, scientific instruments and web authoring joins the new interest in cloud computing. options for distribution parallelization information clouds make retrieval storage processes very complicated, especially when faced with real-time management. quantity Web Users getting access to over Intern...

Information retrieval is the process of searching and retrieval of information from documents that matches user query. The user information requirement is represented by a query or profile that contains one or more search terms. Indexing plays important role to retrieve the information. Researchers have been used indexing techniques only for document indexing and not focused on the speed up the...

Signature indexing has been studied extensively in text database or other databases for many years. The main advantages of a signature le as an access index are its small size, distributability, the ability to index information of a wide variety of types, ease of maintenance, and the ability to provide fuzzy indexing. These features are precisely what are needed for a good access index for inde...

The Informedia Digital Library Project allows full content indexing and retrieval of text, audio and video material. The integration of speech recognition, image processing, natural language processing and information retrieval overcomes limits in each technology to create a useful system. In order to answer the question how good speech recognition has to be in order to be useful and usable for...

Workplace environments are characterised by fluid collection definition, diversity in document types, and the need to search information from diverse repositories and file systems. Workplace retrieval systems cover a large variety of document formats, document genres, and languages, such as English and Danish and professional jargons (Abrol et al., 2001). Most workplace search technologies offe...