Although text categorization is a burgeoning area of IR research, readily available test collections in this field are surprisingly scarce. We describe a methodology and system (...
Abstract. The ImageCLEF task of CLEF has a main goal in the retrieval of images from multi–lingual collections. The 2003 imageCLEF saw no group using the visual information of im...
Open domain question answering (QA) systems have to bridge the potential vocabulary mismatch between a question and its candidate answers. One can view this as a recall problem and...
Stefan Schlobach, Marius Olsthoorn, Maarten de Rij...
Updates over virtual XML views that wrap the relational data have not been well supported by current XML data management systems. This paper studies the problem of the existence of...
One fundamental task to realize the envisioned ubiquitous computing paradigm is the proper management of the data generated in this environment. The special characteristics of high...