In many text retrieval tasks, it is highly desirable to obtain a "similarity profile" of the document collection for a given query. We propose sampling-based techniques ...
Nowadays there is a big amount of biomedical literature which uses complex nouns and acronyms of biological entities thus complicating the task of retrieval specific information....
We present four approaches to the Amharic - French bilingual track at CLEF 2005. All experiments use a dictionary based approach to translate the Amharic queries into French Bags-...
Many different communities have conducted research on the efficacy of relevance feedback in multimedia information systems. Unlike text IR, performance evaluation of multimedia IR...
Abstract. With increasing volumes of data, much effort has been devoted to finding the most suitable answer to an information need. However, in many domains, the question whether a...