This paper reports on experiments submitted for the robust task at CLEF 2007. We applied a system previously tested for ad-hoc retrieval. Experiments were focused on the effect of...
Extractors and taggers turn unstructured text into entityrelation (ER) graphs where nodes are entities (email, paper, person, conference, company) and edges are relations (wrote, ...
With the increasing popularity of the WWW, the main challenge in computer science has become content-based retrieval of multimedia objects. Access to multimedia objects in database...
Arjen P. de Vries, Menzo Windhouwer, Peter M. G. A...
Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval heuristics remaining “external” to the language modelin...
Query expansion has been shown effective for both single database retrieval and for distributed information retrieval where complete collection information is available. One might...