Recently, Multiple Background Models (M-BMs) [1, 2] have been shown to be useful in speaker verification, where the M-BMs are formed based on different Vocal Tract Lengths (VTLs)...
Leveraging information from relevance assessments has been proposed as an effective means for improving retrieval. We introduce a novel language modeling method which uses inform...
This paper describes the fourth participation of IR-n system (Alicante University) at CLEF conferences. At present conference, we have modified the similarity measure and the que...
Abstract. For practical applications, the use of top-down query-driven proofprocedures is essential for an efficient use and computation of answers using Logic Programs as knowledg...
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...