Retrieval in historic documents with non-standard spelling requires a mapping from search terms onto the historic terms in the document. For describing this mapping, we have develo...
Focused crawlers are considered as a promising way to tackle the scalability problem of topic-oriented or personalized search engines. To design a focused crawler, the choice of s...
We propose a language-model-based ranking approach for SPARQLlike queries on entity-relationship graphs. Our ranking model supports exact matching, approximate structure matching,...
Image retrieval has great potential for a variety of tasks in medicine but is currently underdeveloped. For the ImageCLEF 2005 medical task, we used a text retrieval system as the ...
In this paper, we introduce the idea of Intent Analysis, which is to create a profile of the goals and intentions present in textual content. Intent Analysis, similar to Sentiment...