Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
This paper describes our experiments in Geographical Information Retrieval (GIR) in the context of our participation in the GeoCLEF 2006 Monolingual English task. The TALPGeoIR sy...
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
We present a user-centred, task-oriented, comparative evaluation of two query-based document skimming tools. ProfileSkim bases within-document retrieval on computing a relevance pr...
Abstract. This paper presents a novel method of automatic image semantic annotation. Our approach is based on the Image-Keyword Document Model (IKDM) with image features discretiza...
Xiangdong Zhou, Lian Chen, Jianye Ye, Qi Zhang, Ba...