Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...
: In modern information systems the dominant retrieval paradigms have shifted from exact matching towards retrieving a list of the most relevant objects. This is because users usua...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
Where Information Retrieval (IR) and Text Categorization delivers a set of (ranked) documents according to a query, users of large document collections would rather like to receiv...
Information plays an increasingly important role in our lives. Often we retrieve this information by querying the Web: data resources found on the web may provide the information ...
Bas van Gils, Henderik Alex Proper, Patrick van Bo...
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2009 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...