Some recent works have shown that the “perfect” selection of the best IR system per query could lead to a significant improvement on the retrieval performance. Motivated by thi...
Many large-scale biometric systems operate in the identification mode and include multimodal information. While biometric fusion is a well-studied problem, most of the fusion schem...
Metasearch engines submit the user query to several underlying search engines and then merge their retrieved results to generate a single list that is more effective to the users&...
We introduce the Ranked Feature Fusion framework for information retrieval system design. Typical information retrieval formalisms such as the vector space model, the bestmatch mo...
For our fourth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, our first objective was to propose an effective and general stopword list and a light stemming procedure for the Port...