We report on the design and evaluation of a visualization tool for Information Retrieval (IR) systems that aims to help the end user in the following respects:
While there are many proposals for path indexes on XML documents, none of them is perfectly suited for indexing large-scale collections of interlinked XML documents. Existing strat...
We show how the recognition performance of a speech recognition component in a speech retrieval system affects the retrieval effectiveness. A speech retrieval system facilitates c...
With the variety of human life, people are interested in various matters for each one’s unique reason, for which a machine maybe a better counselor than a human. This paper prop...
The University of Maryland participated in three TREC-6 tasks: ad hoc retrieval, cross-language retrieval, and spoken document retrieval. The principal focus of the work was evalu...