While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Document retrieval systems conventionally use words as the basic unit of representation, a natural choice since words are primary carriers of semantic information. In this paper w...
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
Navigation in and access to the contents of digital audio archives have become increasingly important topics in Information Retrieval. Both private and commercial music collection...
A recycling object is in its recycle chain and its status may often change according to recycling stage or reusing status; even its structure could often dynamically change accordi...