Abstract. Query expansion is a well known method to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. In this work we have tested different approaches to extract the candid...
In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...
The Image Distortion Model (IDM) has shown good retrieval quality in previous runs of the medical automatic annotation task of previous ImageCLEF workshops. However, one of its li...
This paper presents a new method for image retrieval using a graph object oriented database for processing the information extracted from the image through the segmentation process...
In this paper we introduce POLAR, a probabilistic objectoriented logical framework for annotation-based information retrieval. In POLAR, the knowledge about digital objects, annot...