Information integration systems have to cope with the different and limited query interfaces of the underlying information sources. First, the integration systems need description...
Abstract. We investigate the potential of coherence-based scores to predict query difficulty. The coherence of a document set associated with each query word is used to capture the...
Previous models of dynamic querying supported by query previews have focussed on attribute based querying, have required information providers to create preview tables, and have p...
It is crucial for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems to deal with the translation of unknown queries1 due to that real queries might be short. The purpose of this...
We introduce a new multimodal retrieval technique which combines query reformulation and visual image reranking in order to deal with results sparsity and imprecision, respectively...