A text retrieval method called the thematic geographical search method has been developed and applied to a Japanese encyclopedia called the World Encyclopædia. In this method, th...
This paper presents a novel method for acquiring a set of query patterns to retrieve documents containing important information about an entity. Given an existing Wikipedia catego...
We present a method for video classification based on information in the soundtrack. Unlike previous approaches which describe the audio via statistics of mel-frequency cepstral ...
Courtenay V. Cotton, Daniel P. W. Ellis, Alexander...
Static index pruning techniques aim at removing from the posting lists of an inverted file the references to documents which are likely to be not relevant for answering user querie...
: In this paper, we document our efforts in participating to the TREC 2007 Legal track. We had multiple aims: First, to experiment with using different query formulations, trying t...
Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps, Martijn Kooken, Nir Nu...