In this paper we will describe Berkeley's approach to the Domain Specific (DS) track for CLEF 2007. This year we are using forms of the Entry Vocabulary Indexes and Thesaurus...
Currently, there does not exist reliable MV treatment or protocols in critical care to treat acute respiratory diseases, and thus no proven way to optimise care to minimise the mor...
Christopher E. Hann, Darren Hewett, J. Geoffrey Ch...
In the robust track, we mainly tested our passage-based retrieval model with different passage sizes and weighting schemes. In our approach, we used two retrieval models, namely t...
Recent years have seen a growing interest in research into patent retrieval. One of the key issues in conducting information retrieval (IR) research is meaningful evaluation of the...
This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...