INEX, the evaluation initiative for content-oriented XML retrieval, has since its establishment defined the relevance of an element according to two graded dimensions, exhaustivit...
This paper introduces a faceted model of image semantics which attempts to express the richness of semantic content interpretable within an image. Using a large image data-set fro...
Jonathon S. Hare, Paul H. Lewis, Peter G. B. Enser...
In recent years, there has been a dramatic proliferation of research on information retrieval based on highly subjective concepts such as emotion, preference and aesthetic. Such r...
We are concerned with the use of Mobile Agents for information retrieval. A multi-agent system is considered; a number of agents are involved in a collective effort to retrieve di...
The aim of an information retrieval system is to nd relevant documents, thus relevance is a (if not `the') central concept of information retrieval. Notwithstanding its impor...