Abstract. This paper describes an experimental investigation of interactive techniques for cross-language information access. The task was to answer factual questions from a large ...
Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oar...
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...
Vocabulary incompatibilities arise when the terms used to index a document collection are largely unknown, or at least not well-known to the users who eventually search the collec...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Fredric C. Gey...
We consider the problem of browsing the top ranked portion of the documents returned by an information retrieval system. We describe an interactive relevance feedback agent that a...
Medical visual information retrieval has been a very active research area over the past ten years as an increasing amount of images is produced digitally and made available in the ...