Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...
We present a hybrid method to turn off-the-shelf information retrieval (IR) systems into future event predictors. Given a query, a time series model is trained on the publication...
Episodic knowledge is often stored in the form of textual narratives written in natural language. However, a large repository of such narratives will contain both repetitive and n...
Context-awareness for information retrieval is challenging problem as information about the users current situation is rarely available. If such information would be available, re...
Recent content-based video retrieval systems combine output of concept detectors (also known as high-level features) with text obtained through automatic speech recognition. This ...
Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra, Arjen P. de Vries, Fra...