This paper presents the approach used by the University of Alicante in the ImageCLEF 2004 adhoc retrieval task. This task is performed by multilingual search requests (topics) agai...
We describe a method to define and use subwebs, user-defined neighborhoods of the Internet. Subwebs help improve search performance by inducing a topic-specific page relevance ...
Raman Chandrasekar, Harr Chen, Simon Corston-Olive...
In this paper we explore the use of parsimonious language models for web retrieval. These models are smaller thus more efficient than the standard language models and are therefor...
Participating in a text retrieval conference for the first time, Eidetica has run six minimalistic tests with its t·repository indexer, doing as little tuning as possible, in ord...
Link detection has been regarded as a core technology for the Topic Detection and Tracking tasks of new event detection. In this paper we formulate story link detection and new ev...