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...
In business, the retrieval of up-to-date, or fresh, information is very important. It is difficult for conventional search engines based on a centralized architecture to retrieve ...
Situational aspects are very helpful to decide relevance but they have often been left aside by Information Retrieval models. The standard logical approach to Information Retrieva...
This paper presents recent work on a multimedia retrieval project at Cambridge University and Olivetti Research Limited ORL. We present novel techniques that allow extremely rapid...
M. G. Brown, J. T. Foote, Gareth J. F. Jones, Kare...
This paper presents a new pooling method for constructing the assessment sets used in the evaluation of retrieval systems. Our proposal is based on RankBoost, a machine learning v...