: Variation in performances of an Information Retrieval system, which merges results from a number of retrieval schemes possessing equal and unequal weights, is studied in this pap...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
Combining retrieval results from multiple modalities plays a crucial role for video retrieval systems, especially for automatic video retrieval systems without any user feedback a...
Abstract. This paper describes an investigation of data fusion techniques for spoken document retrieval. The effectiveness of retrievals solely based on the outputs from automatic...
Although the application of data fusion in information retrieval has yielded good results in the majority of the cases, it has been noticed that its achievement is dependent on the...