: We show how an alternative approach to document-oriented specification can ease the system design process. By identifying the modeling concepts needed for a complete system speci...
The TREC Blog track aims to explore information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere, by building reusable test collections for blog-related search tasks. Since, its advent in TRE...
Craig Macdonald, Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Iadh Ounis,...
Tarragon Consulting Corporation participated in the adhoc retrieval task of the TREC 2004 Genomics Track. We used a standard deployment of the K2 search engine from Verity, Inc. i...
Building recognition systems for historical documents is a difficult task. Especially, when it comes to medieval scripts. The complexity is mainly affected by the poor quality and...
In the KL divergence framework, the extended language modeling approach has a critical problem estimating a query model, which is the probabilistic model that encodes user’s inf...