Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Abstract: Collaborative learning systems can be constructed following the serviceoriented computing paradigm. This allows educators to integrate external tools, offered as services...
Guillermo Vega-Gorgojo, Miguel L. Bote-Lorenzo, Ed...
This paper describes the participation of MIRACLE research consortium at the Query Parsing task of GeoCLEF 2007. Our system is composed of three main modules. First, the Named Geo...
In Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR), accurately ranking the returned images is of paramount importance, since users consider mostly the topmost results. The typical ranking st...
Fabio F. Faria, Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de...
Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) is a promising technology for enhancing the utility of spoken materials. After the spoken documents have been transcribed by using a Large Vocabula...