Due to the historical and cultural reasons, English phases, especially the proper nouns and new words, frequently appear in Web pages written primarily in Asian languages such as ...
This paper reports the participation of the University of Lisbon at the 2007 GeoCLEF task. We adopted a novel approach for GIR, focused on handling geographic features and feature ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Cruz, Marcirio Silveira Chaves...
We introduce TIRA1 , a software architecture for the rapid prototyping of tailored information retrieval (IR) tools. TIRA allows to compose personal IR tools from atomic IR servic...
Background: RNA interference has revolutionized our ability to study the effects of altering the expression of single genes in mammalian (and other) cells through targeted knockdo...
Jyoti K. Shah, Harold R. Garner, Michael A. White,...
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...