Despite the widespread use of BM25, there have been few studies examining its effectiveness on a document description over single and multiple field combinations. We determine t...
: This paper describes a new approach to document classification based on visual features alone. Text-based retrieval systems perform poorly on noisy text. We have conducted serie...
Many different communities have conducted research on the efficacy of relevance feedback in multimedia information systems. Unlike text IR, performance evaluation of multimedia IR...
It seems the time is ripe for the two to meet: NLP has grown out of prototypes and IR is having hard time trying to improve precision. Two examples of possible approaches are consi...
This report describes the approach used in our participation of ImageCLEF. Our focus is on image retrieval using text, i.e. Cross-Media IR. To do this, we first determine the str...
Carmen Alvarez, Ahmed Id Oumohmed, Max Mignotte, J...