York University participated in HARD and Genomics tracks this year. For both tracks, we used Okapi BSS (basic search system) as the basis. Our experiments mainly focused on exploi...
Xiangji Huang, Yan Rui Huang, Ming Zhong, Miao Wen
This paper aims at automatic recognition of online handwritten mathematical expressions written on an electronic tablet. The proposed technique involves two major stages: symbol r...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
s from Biomedical Abstracts Patrick Rucha , Celia Boyer c , Christine Chichesterb , Imad Tbahritiab Antoine Geissbühlera , Paul Fabrya , Julien Gobeilla , Violaine Pilletab , Diet...