Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have recently proven to be effective for web queries. However, when initial queries have reasonably good quality, these techniqu...
This paper describes our diversity featured retrieval system which are built for the task of ImageCLEFPhoto 2008. Two existing tools are used: Solr and Carrot2 . We have experimen...
Jiayu Tang, Thomas Arni, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clou...
In many database applications, there are opportunities for multiple top-N queries to be evaluated at the same time. Often it is more cost effective to evaluate multiple such queri...
We present a report on our participation in the English-Dutch bilingual task of the 2001 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). We attempted to demonstrate that good cross languag...
Search engine result pages (SERPs) are known as the most expensive real estate on the planet. Most queries yield millions of organic search results, yet searchers seldom look beyon...