In professional environments which are characterized by a domain (Medicine, Law, etc.), information retrieval systems must be able to process precise queries, mostly because of the...
To improve the accuracy in terms of precision and recall of an audio information retrieval system we have created a domainspecific ontology (a collection of key concepts and their...
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
In this paper we describe our participation in the 2010 CLEF-IP Prior Art Retrieval task where we examined the impact of information in different sections of patent documents, nam...