Using relevance feedback can significantly improve (ad hoc) retrieval effectiveness. Yet, if little feedback is available, effectively exploiting it is a challenge. To that end,...
We propose a mathematical framework for query selection as a mechanism for reducing the cost of constructing information retrieval test collections. In particular, our mathematica...
Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayl...
Abstract. In this paper we describe ImageCLEF1, the cross language image retrieval track of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF3). We instigated and ran a pilot experiment in...
1 This paper presents an investigation into the utility of document summarisation in the context of information retrieval, more specifically in the application of so called query b...
This document describes the CLIPS experiments in the CLEF 2005 campaign. We used a surface-syntactic parser in order to extract new indexing terms. These terms are considered synta...