The field of information retrieval still strives to develop models which allow semantic information to be integrated in the ranking process to improve performance in comparison to...
We propose a weakly-supervised approach for extracting class attributes from structured text available within Web documents. The overall precision of the extracted attributes is a...
We propose a Web search site called "Cyclone", in which a user can retrieve encyclopedic term descriptions on the Web. Cyclone searches the Web for headwords and page fr...
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
This paper describes various methods and approaches for language-based multimedia information retrieval, which have been developed in the projects POP-EYE and OLIVE and which will...
Franciska de Jong, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Djoerd Hiemst...