: We propose a method for text retrieval from document images without the use of OCR. Documents are segmented into character objects. Image features, namely the Vertical Traverse D...
Traditional interactive information retrieval systems function by creating inverted lists, or term indexes. For every term in the vocabulary, a list is created that contains the d...
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...
This paper presents four novel techniques for open-vocabulary spoken document retrieval: a method to detect slots that possibly contain a query feature; a method to estimate occurr...
The work developed in this paper focuses on the overlap of relevant retrieved documents obtained from different combination of systems and components. Study of the impact on infor...