Background: Text mining has spurred huge interest in the domain of biology. The goal of the BioCreAtIvE exercise was to evaluate the performance of current text mining systems. We...
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
Some recent works have shown that the “perfect” selection of the best IR system per query could lead to a significant improvement on the retrieval performance. Motivated by thi...
A central problem in information retrieval is the automated classification of text documents. While many existing methods achieve good levels of performance, they generally require...
Background: Biological information is commonly used to cluster or classify entities of interest such as genes, conditions, species or samples. However, different sources of data c...