Searching for images of people is an essential task for image and video search engines. However, current search engines have limited capabilities for this task since they rely on ...
In our participation in this CLEF evaluation campaign, the first objective is to propose and evaluate various indexing and search strategies for the Czech language in order to hop...
We study the problem of information brokerage in sensor networks, where information consumers (sinks, users) search for data acquired by information producers (sources). Innetwork...
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...