In classic InformationRetrieval systems a relevant document will not be retrieved in response to a query if the document and query representations do not share at least one term. T...
Methods for fusing document lists that were retrieved in response to a query often use retrieval scores (or ranks) of documents in the lists. We present a novel probabilistic fusi...
The field of information retrieval still strives to develop models which allow semantic information to be integrated in the ranking process to improve performance in comparison to...
In this work, we study similarity measures for text-centric XML documents based on an extended vector space model, which considers both document content and structure. Experimenta...
This paper describes our participation in the GeoCLEF monolingual English task of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2006. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the retr...