This paper describes our participation to the English Girt Task of CLEF 2005 Campaign. A method for conceptual indexing based on WordNet is used. Both documents and queries are map...
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciļ¬c search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userā...
Compiling Bayesian networks (BNs) is one of the hot topics in the area of probabilistic modeling and processing. In this paper, we propose a new method of compiling BNs into multi...
UIUC participated in the HARD track in TREC 2004 and focused on the evaluation of a new method for identifying variable-length passages using HMMs. Most existing approaches to pas...
The Information Society relies more and more on the co-operation and collaboration of multidisciplinary people who need to communicate and share information. Communication and kno...