Query-independent features (also called document priors), such as the number of incoming links to a document, its Page-Rank, or the type of its associated URL, have been successfu...
The paper presents a semi-automated technique for feature location in source code. The technique is based on combining information from two different sources: an execution trace, ...
Image retrieval has been widely used in many fields of science and engineering. The semantic concept of user interest is obtained by a learning process. Traditional techniques oft...
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
Information retrieval is an empirical science; the field cannot move forward unless there are means of evaluating the innovations devised by researchers. However the methodologies...
Mark Sanderson, Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro, Ju...