Location-based information contained in publicly available GIS databases is invaluable for many applications such as disaster response, national infrastructure protection, crime a...
The probabilistic formalism of quantum physics is said to provide a sound basis for building a principled information retrieval framework. Such a framework can be based on the not...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas...
: Visualization of search results is an essential step in the textual Information Retrieval (IR) process. Indeed, Information Retrieval Interfaces (IRIs) are used as a link between...
Nicolas Bonnel, Max Chevalier, Claude Chrisment, G...
In the light of image retrieval evolving from text annotation to content-based and from standalone applications to web-based search engines, we foresee the need for deploying cont...
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...