Contextual information provides an important basis for identifying and understanding users' information needs. Our previous work in traditional information retrieval systems ...
We present an algorithm for video retrieval that fuses the decisions of multiple retrieval agents in both text and image modalities. While the normalization and combination of evi...
Ideal binary masks are binary patterns that encode the masking characteristics of speech in noise. Recent evidence in speech perception suggests that such binary patterns provide ...
This paper presents the participation of FEUP, from University of Porto, in the TREC 2008 Blog Track. FEUP participated in two tasks, the baseline adhoc retrieval task and the blo...
Building an effective Information Retrieval system requires various design choices, ranging from the weighting scheme to the type of morphological normalization. The combination ...