We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
This paper describes the Knowledge Base multimedia retrieval system for the TRECVID 2008 evaluation. Our focus this year is on query analysis and the creation of a topic knowledge...
This paper describes Koru, a new search interface that offers effective domain-independent knowledge-based information retrieval. Koru exhibits an understanding of the topics of b...
GeoCLEF ran as a regular track for the second time within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2007. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic ...
Thomas Mandl, Fredric C. Gey, Giorgio Maria Di Nun...
We propose a formal model of Cross-Language Information Retrieval that does not rely on either query translation or document translation. Our approach leverages recent advances in...