To facilitate the sharing of information using modern communication networks, users must be able to decide on a privacy policy--what information to conceal, what to reveal, and to...
Hidden Web databases maintain a collection of specialised documents, which are dynamically generated in response to users' queries. The majority of these documents are genera...
Yih-Ling Hedley, Muhammad Younas, Anne E. James, M...
This study explores the benefits of integrating knowledge representations in prior art patent retrieval. Key to the introduced approach is the utilization of human judgment availa...
Erik Graf, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas, Keith va...
In this paper, we describe ideas and related experiments of Tsinghua University IR group in TREC 2004 QA track. In this track, our system consists three components: Question analy...
This paper summarizes the task design for iCLEF 2006 (the CLEF interactive track). Compared to previous years, we have proposed a radically new task: searching images in a natural...