User generated content is characterized by short, noisy documents, with many spelling errors and unexpected language usage. To bridge the vocabulary gap between the user's in...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
Abstract. In this paper we report results of experiments conducted with strategies for improving text-based image retrieval. The adopted strategies were evaluated in the photograph...
The participation of the University of Hildesheim focused on the monolingual German and English and the bilingual German English tasks of GeoCLEF 2006. Based on the results of Geo...
Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hac...
We present methods for improving text search retrieval of visual multimedia content by applying a set of visual models of semantic concepts from a lexicon of concepts deemed relev...
Alexander Haubold, Apostol Natsev, Milind R. Napha...
Pseudo-feedback-based automatic query expansion yields effective retrieval performance on average, but results in performance inferior to that of using the original query for many...