The huge amount of data available from Internet information sources has focused much attention on the sharing of distributed information through Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS...
This work evaluates a few search strategies for Arabic monolingual and cross-lingual retrieval, using the TREC Arabic corpus as the test-bed. The release by NIST in 2001 of an Ara...
At CLEF 2009 the University of Hildesheim focused on the main task of the Intellectual Property Track which aims at finding prior art for a specified patent [cf. Information Retri...
Daniela Becks, Christa Womser-Hacker, Thomas Mandl...
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 study how to automatically exploit visual concepts in a text-based image retrieval task. First, we use Forest of Fuzzy Decision Trees (FFDTs) to automatically ann...
Sabrina Tollari, Marcin Detyniecki, Christophe Mar...