This paper presents the participation of the MIRACLE team1 at the ImageCLEF 2005 interactive search task, in which we compare the efficiency of AND monolingual queries (which have ...
The retrieval of sentences that are relevant to a given information need is a challenging passage retrieval task. In this context, the well-known vocabulary mismatch problem arises...
Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...
— An important problem in color based image retrieval is the lack of efficient way to represent both the color and the spatial structure information with single descriptor. To so...
Indexing and ranking are two key factors for efficient and effective XML information retrieval. Inappropriate indexing may result in false negatives and false positives, and impro...