Query performance prediction is aimed at predicting the retrieval effectiveness that a query will achieve with respect to a particular ranking model. In this paper, we study quer...
Abstract—One of the first Multi-Language Information Retrieval (MLIR) systems was implemented in 1969 by Gerard Salton who enhanced his SMART system to retrieve multilingual doc...
Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, Eliza...
User queries on extensible markup language (XML) documents are typically expressed as regular path expressions. A variety of indexing techniques for efficiently retrieving the re...
Many different approaches for content-based image retrieval have been proposed in the literature. Successful approaches consider not only simple features like color, but also take ...
Karin Kailing, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Stefan Schö...
Using relevance feedback can significantly improve (ad hoc) retrieval effectiveness. Yet, if little feedback is available, effectively exploiting it is a challenge. To that end,...