: This paper presents the results of our team in the Genomics and Blog tracks in TREC 2007. We used the language model implementation provided by Indri for both tracks. For the BLO...
Miguel E. Ruiz, Ying Sun, Jianqiang Wang, Hongfang...
We explore the utility of different types of topic models for retrieval purposes. Based on prior work, we describe several ways that topic models can be integrated into the retrie...
In this paper, we present an integrated system for news video retrieval. The proposed system incorporates both speech and visual information in the search mechanisms. The initial ...
In this paper we will briefly describe the approaches taken by the Cheshire (Berkeley) Group for the CLEF Adhoc-TEL 2009 tasks (Mono and Bilingual retrieval). Recognizing that man...
In this paper, we address both standard and focused retrieval tasks based on comprehensible language models and interactive query expansion (IQE). Query topics are expanded using a...