In this year’s participation we continued to evaluate open source information retrieval software. We used mainly the system Lucene and experimented with some of the most effecti...
Abstract. This paper revisits some of the established Information Retrieval (IR) techniques to investigate effective collaborative search strategies. We devised eight search strate...
Building an effective Information Retrieval system requires various design choices, ranging from the weighting scheme to the type of morphological normalization. The combination ...
In this paper we examine a novel approach to the difficult problem of querying video databases using visual topics with few examples. Typically with visual topics, the examples a...
Jelena Tesic, Apostol Natsev, Lexing Xie, John R. ...
The dynamic optimization problem concerns finding an optimum in a changing environment. In the tracking problem, the optimizer should be able to follow the optimum’s changes ov...
Claudio Rossi, Antonio Barrientos, Jaime del Cerro