In the robust track, we mainly tested our passage-based retrieval model with different passage sizes and weighting schemes. In our approach, we used two retrieval models, namely t...
In TREC 2007, we participate in four tasks of the Blog and Enterprise tracks. We continue experiments using Terrier1 [14], our modular and scalable Information Retrieval (IR) plat...
David Hannah, Craig Macdonald, Jie Peng, Ben He, I...
This paper describes our approaches to the opinion retrieval and blog distillation tasks for the Blog Track. For opinion retrieval we employ a two-stage framework consisting of ke...
When dealing with large, distributed systems that use state-of-the-art components, individual components are usually developed in parallel. As development continues, the decouplin...
Our aim is to point out the benefits that can be derived from research advances in the implementation of concepts such as ambient intelligence and ubiquitous/pervasive computing f...