The importance of background knowledge for effective searching on the Web is not well understood. Participants were given trivia questions on two topics and asked to answer them f...
Finding biological entities (such as genes or proteins) that satisfy certain conditions from texts is an important and challenging task in biomedical information retrieval and tex...
As the number of non-English documents is increasing dramatically on the web nowadays, the study and design of information retrieval systems for these languages is very important....
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With the exponential growth of the available information on the World Wide Web, a traditional search engine, even if based on sophisticated document indexing algorithms, has diffi...
High retrieval precision in content-based image retrieval can be attained by adopting relevance feedback mechanisms. These mechanisms require that the user judges the quality of t...