Abstract. All search happens in a particular context—such as the particular collection of a digital library, its associated search tasks, and its associated users. Information re...
In order to evaluate the performance of information retrieval and extraction algorithms, we need test collections. A test collection consists of a set of documents, a clearly form...
User-contributed tags have shown promise as a means of indexing multimedia collections by harnessing the combined efforts and enthusiasm of online communities. But tags are only o...
This year we participated at 4 Question Answering tasks at CLEF: the Italian monolingual (I), Italian-English (I/E), Bulgarian monolingual (B), and Bulgarian-English (B/E) bilingu...
In this paper, we discuss how to present the result of searching elements of any type from XML documents relevant to some information need (relevance-oriented search). As the resu...