This paper describes the first large-scale evaluation of information retrieval systems using Dutch documents and queries. We describe in detail the characteristics of the Dutch te...
Search and retrieval of specific musical content such as emotive or sonic features has become an important aspect of Music Information Retrieval system development, but only little...
Micheline Lesaffre, Marc Leman, Jean-Pierre Marten...
General information retrieval systems are designed to serve all users without considering individual needs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to personalized search. It c...
Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wa...
— Semantic file systems enhance standard file systems with the ability of file searching based on file semantics. The users interact with semantic file systems not only by execut...
Information retrieval systems are frequently required to handle long queries. Simply using all terms in the query or relying on the underlying retrieval model to appropriately wei...
Information retrieval systems (IRSs) usually suffer from a low ability to recognize a same idea that is expressed in different forms. A way of improving these systems is to take ...
Fabienne Moreau, Vincent Claveau, Pascale Sé...
Information Retrieval systems are limited by the linguistic variation of language. The use of Natural Language Processing techniques to manage this problem has been studied for a ...
To make multimedia data easily retrieved, we use metadata to describe the information, so that search engines or other information filter tools can effectively and efficiently loc...
In focused XML retrieval, information retrieval systems have to find out which are the most appropriate retrieval units and return only these to the user, avoiding overlapping elem...
In cooperative peer-to-peer information retrieval systems, each node can be considered an intelligent agent and these agents work collectively to provide an information retrieval ...