As an effective technique for improving retrieval effectiveness, relevance feedback (RF) has been widely studied in both monolingual and cross-language information retrieval (CLIR...
This work addresses the soundtrack indexing of multimedia documents. We present and merge two audio classification tools that we have developed. The first one, a speech music clas...
This paper details our experiments carried out at TREC 2008 Relevance Feedback Track. We focused on the analysis of feedback documents, both relevant and non-relevant, to explore ...
The recent enormous increase in the use of networked information access and on-line databases has led to more databases being available in languages other than English. The Center...
We propose a formal model of Cross-Language Information Retrieval that does not rely on either query translation or document translation. Our approach leverages recent advances in...