Maristella Agosti is full professor in computer science, with a main focus on databases and information retrieval, at the Faculty of Humanities and at the Department of Information Engineering (DEI) of the University of Padova. She is the leader of the Information Management System (IMS) group of DEI and coordinates a number of national and international research projects. Her current interests are digital libraries, system architectures with a special focus on annotations, and multimedia digital archives.

Information Access using the Guide of User Requirements.- From Linking Text to Linking Crimes: Information Retrieval, But Not As You Know It.- Modeling Retrieval and Navigation in Context.- Two Algorithms for Probabilistic Stemming.- Automated Text Categorization: The Two-Dimensional Probabilistic Model.- Analysis of Web Link Analysis Algorithms: The Mathematics of Ranking.- Digital Annotations: a Formal Model and its Applications.- Music Indexing and Retrieval for Multimedia Digital Libraries.- A Statistical and Graphical Methodology for Comparing Bilingual to Monolingual Cross-Language Information Retrieval.

The Information Management Systems group at the University of Padua has been a major contributor to information retrieval (IR) and digital libraries. The papers in this book include coverage of automated text categorizations, web link analysis algorithms, retrieval in multimedia digital libraries, and multilingual information retrieval. The text will appeal to institutions and companies working on search engines and information retrieval algorithms.