Leveraging information from relevance assessments has been proposed as an effective means for improving retrieval. We introduce a novel language modeling method which uses inform...
The poster describes a fast, simple, yet accurate method to associate large amounts of web resources stored in a search engine database with geographic locations. The method uses ...
Recent work on language models for information retrieval has shown that smoothing language models is crucial for achieving good retrieval performance. Many different effective smo...
Dictionary-based approaches to query translation have been widely used in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) experiments. Using these approaches, translation has been not...
Until recently, issues in image retrieval have been handled in DBMSs and in computer vision as separate research works. Nowadays, the trend is towards integrating the two approach...
Solomon Atnafu, Richard Chbeir, David Coquil, Lion...