We use Wikipedia articles to semantically inform the generation of query models. To this end, we apply supervised machine learning to automatically link queries to Wikipedia artic...
We consider blog feed search: identifying relevant blogs for a given topic. An individual’s search behavior often involves a combination of exploratory behavior triggered by sal...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
We focus on the task of target detection in automatic link generation with Wikipedia, i.e., given an N-gram in a snippet of text, find the relevant Wikipedia concepts that explai...
The main goal of the bilingual and monolingual participation of the MIRACLE team at CLEF 2004 was testing the effect of combination approaches to information retrieval. The starti...
In this paper we present an e-librarian service which is able to retrieve multimedia resources from a knowledge base in a more efficient way than by browsing through an index or by...