Noun phrases in queries are identified and classified into four types: proper names, dictionary phrases, simple phrases and complex phrases. A document has a phrase if all content...
Evaluating rankers using implicit feedback, such as clicks on documents in a result list, is an increasingly popular alternative to traditional evaluation methods based on explici...
The PC Desktop is a very rich repository of personal information, efficiently capturing user's interests. In this paper we propose a new approach towards an automatic persona...
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Claudiu S. Firan, Wolfgang...
This article describes the participation of the University and Hospitals of Geneva at three tasks of the 2007 ImageCLEF image retrieval benchmark. The visual retrieval techniques r...
Xin Zhou, Julien Gobeill, Patrick Ruch, Henning M&...
Social network systems, like last.fm, play a significant role in Web 2.0, containing large amounts of multimedia-enriched data that are enhanced both by explicit user-provided an...
Ioannis Konstas, Vassilios Stathopoulos, Joemon M....