This year at TREC 2003 we participated in the robust track and investigated the use of very simple retrieval rules based on convex combinations of similarity measures based on fi...
After retrieval, this simple strategy yield to an important improvement of the average precision: from 17.02 up to 35.80. Task II. Our approach is based on argumentative structurin...
This paper describes our participation in the 2008 TREC Blog track. Our system consists of 3 components: data preprocessing, topic retrieval, and opinion finding. In the topic ret...
Abstract: In our participation in the TREC 2007 Question Answering (QA) track, we focused on three tasks. First, we processed the new blog corpus and converted it to formats which ...
Katja Hofmann, Valentin Jijkoun, Mahboob Alam Khal...
This paper presents a robust and accurate method for joint head pose and facial actions tracking, even under challenging conditions such as varying lighting, large head movements,...