We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
To ensure access to growing video collections, annotation is becoming more and more important. Using background knowledge in the form of ontologies or thesauri is a way to facilit...
Ontologies play a key role in Semantic Web research. A common use of ontologies in Semantic Web is to enrich the current Web resources with some well-defined meaning to enhance th...
Gaihua Fu, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty
This paper examines whether the Cranfield evaluation methodology is robust to gross violations of the completeness assumption (i.e., the assumption that all relevant documents wi...
The aim of this project is the automatic conversion of query terms in one language into their equivalents in a second, historically related, language, so that documents in the sec...