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RIAO
2004
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Cross-Language Image Retrieval via Spoken Query
This paper studies cross-language cross-medium information retrieval. We introduce several approaches to unify the languages and media of queries and documents. We experiment on c...
Wen-Cheng Lin, Ming-Shun Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Monitoring User-System Performance in Interactive Retrieval Tasks
Monitoring user-system performance in interactive search is a challenging task. Traditional measures of retrieval evaluation, based on recall and precision, are not of any use in ...
Liudmila V. Boldareva, Arjen P. de Vries, Djoerd H...
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Integrating XLink and XPath to Retrieve Structured Multimedia Documents in Digital Libraries
To support the retrieval of multimedia data according to user information needs, multimedia information retrieval in digital libraries must be based on semantics and not just prim...
Zhigang Kong, Mounia Lalmas
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Chinese Character Expansion for Retrieving Japanese Paraphrases
This paper proposes two methods of query expansion for retrieving paraphrase candidates indexed by Kanzi (Chinese) characters. The idea is to calculate similarity between Kanzi ch...
Takenobu Tokunaga, Yoshiki Tezuka, Hozumi Tanaka
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Improving the Precision of a Closed-Domain Question-Answering System with Semantic Information
This paper presents our experiments in applying semantic information to improve the precision of the information retrieval module in a closed-domain question-answering system. Tha...
Hai Doan-Nguyen, Leila Kosseim
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
An Experiment with Ontology Mapping using Concept Similarity
This paper describes a system for automatically mapping between concepts in different ontologies. The motivation for the research stems from the Diogene project, in which the proj...
Robert Villa, Ruth Wilson, Fabio Crestani
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Subject Knowledge, Thesaurus-assisted Query Expansion and Search Success
This study explored how experts and novices in pedagogics expanded queries supported by the ERIC thesaurus, and how this was connected to the search success in an easy and a diffi...
Anne Sihvonen, Pertti Vakkari
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Browsing and Searching E-encyclopaedias
Educational websites and electronic encyclopaedias employ many of the same design elements, such as hyperlinks, frames and search mechanisms. This paper asks to what extent recomm...
Ruth Wilson, Julie Shortreed, Monica Landoni
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Group Memory Based on the Task Information
A group memory of a project is an information space storing the documents produced and exchanged by members of the group, which may include the electronic discussions that took pl...
Jonathan Yu, James A. Thom, Leila Alem
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Combining classifiers for harmful document filtering
Bruno Grilheres, Stephan Brunessaux, Philippe Lera...