This year, we have participated on Ad-Hoc Robust Multilingual track with the aim to evaluate two issues of CLIR systems. Firstly, this paper describes the method followed for quer...
With the growing popularity of information retrieval (IR) in distributed systems and in particular P2P Web search, a huge number of protocols and prototypes have been introduced i...
Thomas Neumann, Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel,...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Searchers can have problems devising queries that accurately express their, often dynamic, information needs. In this paper we describe an adaptive approach that uses unobtrusive ...
A combination of several classifiers using global features for the content description of medical images is proposed. Beside well known texture histogram features, downscaled repr...