Effective peer selection for intelligent query routing is a challenge in collaborative peer-based Web search systems, especially unstructured networks that do not have any central...
Abstract. Collaborative filtering is a major technique to make personalized recommendations about information items (movies, books, webpages etc) to individual users. In the liter...
Previous work on Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval has shown the inadequateness of semantic and syntactic structures for both document retrieval and categoriza...
The university campus is an interesting application environment for the ubiquitous computing paradigm: a large number of users share a substantial amount of their information need...
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2009 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...