ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Springer
We investigate possible assessment trends and inconsistencies within the collected relevance assessments of the INEX'02 test collection in order to provide a critical analysis...
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. There is a common availability of classification terms in online text collections and digital libraries, such as manually assigned keywords or key-phrases from a controll...
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Springer
A medium-scale user study was carried out to investigate the usability of a concept-based query expansion support tool. The tool was fully integrated into the interface of an IR sy...
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Springer
We simulate different architectures of a distributed Information Retrieval system on a very large Web collection, in order to work out the optimal setting for a particular set of r...
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. Question answering systems aim to meet users' information needs by returning exact answers in response to a question. Traditional open domain question answering syst...
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. This paper describes a novel interaction technique to support content-based image search in large image collections. The idea is to represent each image as a vertex in a ...
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Springer
This paper introduces a new approach to add fault-tolerance to a fulltext retrieval system. The weighted pattern morphing technique circumvents some of the disadvantages of the wid...
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Springer
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Springer
Content-only retrieval of XML documents deals with the problem of locating the smallest XML elements that satisfy the query. In this paper, we investigate the application of a spec...