It has been known that using different representations of either queries or documents, or different retrieval techniques retrieves different sets of documents. Recent work suggest...
Structured documents contain elements defined by the author(s) and annotations assigned by other people or processes. Structured documents pose challenges for probabilistic retrie...
This paper presents the first participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Photo Retrieval task at Image CLEF 2008. Our system uses Lucene for text indexing and LIRE for ...
This paper examines the estimation of global term weights (such as IDF) in information retrieval scenarios where a global view on the collection is not available. In particular, t...