Ambiguous queries constitute a significant fraction of search instances and pose real challenges to web search engines. With current approaches the top results for these queries ...
Abstract. We propose an approach for efficient word retrieval from printed documents belonging to Digital Libraries. The approach combines word image clustering (based on Self Orga...
A new method for automatic indexing and retrieval is described. The approach is to take advantage of implicit higher-order structure in the association of terms with documents (&q...
This paper reports on the participation of ITC-irst in the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2003; in particular, in the monolingual, bilingual, small multilingual, and spoken docum...
In order to solve medical multimodal queries, we propose to split the queries in different dimensions using ontology. We extract both textual and visual terms depending on the ont...