This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Abstract. Terms which are not explicitly mentioned in the text of a document receive often a minor role in current retrieval systems. In this work we connect the management of such...
Learning a good ranking function plays a key role for many applications including the task of (multimedia) information retrieval. While there are a few rank learning methods availa...
Abstract: The article presents a model of the structural properties of virtual communities and the information they can access. It argues that a large part of the information – a...
Abstract. In this paper, a new approach for retrieval from semistructured photographic collections is described. We have developed a retrieval model based on the Dempster-Shafer th...