Traditional information retrieval systems use query words to identify relevant documents. In difficult retrieval tasks, however, one needs access to a wealth of background knowled...
Abstract. Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is a specialized Information Retrieval (IR) branch that deals with information related to geographical locations. Traditional IR en...
Abstract. We promote the use of explicit medical knowledge to solve retrieval of information both visual and textual. For text, this knowledge is a set of concepts from a Meta-thes...
k gene annotations. Our indexing machinery produces per indexed MEDLINE abstract a list of concepts with an accompanying weight, termed a fingerprint. Searching is done by matching...
Rob Jelier, Martijn J. Schuemie, C. Christiaan van...
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...