The usefulness of a video database relies on whether the video of interest can be easily located. To allow exploring, browsing, and retrieving videos according to their visual con...
Yap-Peng Tan, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Peter J. Ramadg...
The suitability of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) approaches for fulltext web retrieval has recently been questioned because of the claimed unacceptable bandwidth consumption induced by retri...
Ivana Podnar, Martin Rajman, Toan Luu, Fabius Klem...
Information retrieval systems have to deal with uncertain knowledge and query results should reflect this uncertainty in some manner. However, Semantic Web ontologies are based on...
GeoCLEF is an evaluation initiative for testing queries with a geographic specification in large set of text documents. GeoCLEF ran a regular track for the third time within the C...
Thomas Mandl, Paula Carvalho, Giorgio Maria Di Nun...
Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...