For our fourth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, our first objective was to propose an effective and general stopword list and a light stemming procedure for the Port...
For our fourth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, our objective was to verify whether our combined query translation approach would work well with new requests and new...
Bootstrapping semantics from text is one of the greatest challenges in natural language learning. We first define a word similarity measure based on the distributional pattern of ...
Content-based video retrieval is maturing to the point where it can be used in real-world retrieval practices. One such practice is the audiovisual archive, whose users increasing...
Bouke Huurnink, Cees G. M. Snoek, Maarten de Rijke...
Empirical studies of information retrieval methods show that good retrieval performance is closely related to the use of various retrieval heuristics, such as TF-IDF weighting. On...