Comparing retrieval approaches requires test collections, which consist of documents, queries and relevance assessments. Obtaining consistent and exhaustive relevance assessments ...
Short search engine queries do not provide contextual information, making it difficult for traditional search engines to understand what users are really requesting. One approach ...
Ajith Kodakateri Pudhiyaveetil, Susan Gauch, Hiep ...
Digital visual libraries have currently available huge amounts of content in unstructured, nonindexed form. Since these collections keep growing fast, retrieving specific images i...
Faceted search is becoming a popular method to allow users to interactively search and navigate complex information spaces. A faceted search system presents users with keyvalue me...
This year we participated at 4 Question Answering tasks at CLEF: the Italian monolingual (I), Italian-English (I/E), Bulgarian monolingual (B), and Bulgarian-English (B/E) bilingu...