1 The Decision Support Information Gathering System, Digs, uses influence diagrams to model user's decisions and to calculate the value of imperfect information for each avail...
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
This paper presents a contribution to the large problematic of integrating medical image-based information into a structured framework (such as electronic patient records or anato...
For several reasons a database may not satisfy certain integrity constraints (ICs), for example, when it is the result of integrating several independent data sources. However, mo...
We present an approach to information retrieval based on context distance and morphology. Context distance is a measure we use to assess the closeness of word meanings. This conte...