We report on the effectiveness of language models for personalization of retrieval results based on a searcher’s preference for document genre. In principle, such preferences ca...
Gheorghe Muresan, Catherine L. Smith, Michael Cole...
This paper reports on our participation in CLEF 2005‘s ad-hoc multi-lingual retrieval track. The ad-hoc task introduced Bulgarian and Hungarian as new languages. Our experiments...
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Current video search systems commonly return video shots as results. We believe that users may better relate to longer, semantic video units and propose a retrieval framework for n...
Robin Aly, Aiden R. Doherty, Djoerd Hiemstra, Alan...
In this paper we will describe Berkeley's approach to the Domain Specific (DS) track for CLEF 2007. This year we are using forms of the Entry Vocabulary Indexes and Thesaurus...