Lucene is an increasingly popular open source search library. However, our experiments of search quality for TREC data and evaluations for out-of-the-box Lucene indicated inferior...
For the legal track we used the Wumpus search engine and investigated several methods that have proven successful in other domains, including cover density ranking and Okapi BM25 ...
This paper describes our first participation in TRECVID. We took part in the search task and submitted two interactive runs. Both of them are of Type c, and use no ASR/MT output ...
We describe a high level feature extraction system for video. Video sequences are modeled using Gaussian Mixture Models. We have used those models in the past to segment video seq...
George Yazbek, Georges Kfoury, Gabriel Alam, Chafi...
The INESC Porto group has participated in the search task (automatic and interactive). Our approach combines high-level features (the 39 concepts of the LSCOM-Lite set) with low-l...
Catalin Calistru, Cristina Ribeiro, Gabriel David,...