Question Answering Systems (QAS) are receiving increasing attention from information systems researchers, particularly those in the information retrieval and natural language proc...
Indexing and ranking are two key factors for efficient and effective XML information retrieval. Inappropriate indexing may result in false negatives and false positives, and impro...
Building an effective Information Retrieval system requires various design choices, ranging from the weighting scheme to the type of morphological normalization. The combination ...
With the explosion of multimedia data especially that of video data, requirement of efficient video retrieval has becoming more and more important. Years of TREC Video Retrieval Ev...
Recent years saw an increased interest in the use and the construction of large corpora. With this increased interest and awareness has come an expansion in the application to kno...