The number of personal multimedia objects, such as digital photographs and videos, are exploding on the web through popular sites such as Flickr, YouTube, and FaceBook hosting bil...
In this paper we will describe Berkeley's approach to the Domain Specific (DS) track for CLEF 2008. Last year we used Entry Vocabulary Indexes and Thesaurus expansion approac...
The VideoCLEF track, introduced in 2008, aims to develop and evaluate tasks related to analysis of and access to multilingual multimedia content. In its first year, VideoCLEF pilo...
In this paper we will briefly describe the approaches taken by Berkeley for the main GeoCLEF 2008 tasks (Mono and Bilingual retrieval). The approach this year used probabilistic t...
Databases in real life are often neither entirely closed-world nor entirely open-world. Indeed, databases in an enterprise are typically partially closed, in which a part of the d...