ACT Search and rescue robots often use tethers to provide power and communication, but tethers get caught on debris and small robots have difficulty with the added drag of the tet...
When applying blind relevance feedback for ad hoc document retrieval, is it possible to identify, a priori, the set of query terms that will most improve retrieval performance? Ca...
Abstract. It has been recently demonstrated that the classical EM algorithm for learning Gaussian mixture models can be successfully implemented in a decentralized manner by resort...
Nikos A. Vlassis, Yiannis Sfakianakis, Wojtek Kowa...
Capitalizing on the intuitive underlying assumptions of Language Modelling for Ad-Hoc Retrieval we present a novel approach that is capable of injecting the user’s context of th...
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Cornelis Joost van ...
Abstract. In this paper we describe ImageCLEF1, the cross language image retrieval track of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF3). We instigated and ran a pilot experiment in...