Information relevance is an important issue in information access techniques. A solution for improving this relevance is the personalization or adaptation of the answers provided ...
Geographical information retrieval (GIR) can benefit from context information to adapt the results to a user’s current situation and personal preferences. In this respect, seman...
The need of having a Passage Retrieval (PR) system for Arabic texts is due essentially to our aim to build an Arabic Question Answering (QA) system in our research team. We have ch...
This paper discusses a novel distributed adaptive algorithm and representation used to construct populations of adaptive Web agents. These InfoSpiders browse networked information ...
Spoken document retrieval (SDR) has been extensively studied in recent years because of its potential use in navigating large multimedia collections in the near future. This paper...