Now motivated also by the partial support of major search engines, hundreds of millions of documents are being published on the web embedding semi-structured data in RDF, RDFa and ...
: The evaluation of information retrieval systems involves the creation of potential user needs for which systems try to find relevant documents. The difficulty of these topics dif...
We consider the problem of efficiently computing weighted proximity best-joins over multiple lists, with applications in information retrieval and extraction. We are given a multi-...
AnHai Doan, Haixun Wang, Hao He, Jun Yang 0001, Ri...
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
To ensure access to growing video collections, annotation is becoming more and more important. Using background knowledge in the form of ontologies or thesauri is a way to facilit...