In a multi-language Information Retrieval setting, the knowledge about the language of a user query is important for further processing. Hence, we compare the performance of some t...
In TREC Genomics a question/answering task has been proposed. A set of questions with a specific entity of interest is proposed and a set of passages from a collection of full te...
Non-uniform query languages make searching over heterogeneous information sources difficult. Our approach is to allow a user to compose Boolean queries in one rich front-end lang...
Most casual users of IR systems type short queries. Recent research has shown that adding new words to these queries via adhoc feedback improves the retrieval e ectiveness of such ...
Retrieval in a multimedia database usually involves combining information from different modalities of data, such as text and images. However, all modalities of the data may not b...
Abraham Bagherjeiran, Nicole S. Love, Chandrika Ka...