Abstract. This paper describes the technique for translation of character n-grams we developed for our participation in CLEF 2006. This solution avoids the need for word normalizat...
: Generic systems for content-based image retrieval (CBIR), such as QBIC [7] cannot be used to solve domain-specific image retrieval problems, as for example, the identification of...
We introduce a novel approach to combining rankings from multiple retrieval systems. We use a logistic regression model or an SVM to learn a ranking from pairwise document prefere...
This paper tackles the problem of term ambiguity, especially for biomedical literature. We propose and evaluate two methods of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) for biomedical terms ...
We consider the problem of browsing the top ranked portion of the documents returned by an information retrieval system. We describe an interactive relevance feedback agent that a...