Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...
Measuring effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems is essential for research and development and for monitoring search quality in dynamic environments. In this study, w...
Visual information retrieval (VIR) is a research area with more than 300 scientific publications every year. Technological progress lets surveys become out of date within a short ...
This paper describes our participation in the GeoCLEF monolingual English task of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2006. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the retr...
After being a pilot track in 2005, GeoCLEF advanced to be a regular track within CLEF 2006. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information ret...
Fredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Ker...