The aim of the SCHEMA Network of Excellence is to bring together a critical mass of universities, research centers, industrial partners and end users, in order to design a referenc...
The quality of translation resources is arguably the most important factor affecting the performance of a cross-language information retrieval system. While many investigations ha...
We describe an interactive system for content based image retrieval. The system presents the user with 15 randomly selected images from the database. The user grades the images wit...
Standard approaches to evaluating and comparing information retrieval systems compute simple averages of performance statistics across individual topics to measure the overall sys...
Searching very large collections can be costly in both computation and storage. To reduce this cost, recent research has focused on reducing the size (pruning) of the inverted ind...