ImageCLEF's Wikipedia Retrieval task provides a testbed for the system-oriented evaluation of multimedia information retrieval from a collection of Wikipedia images. The aim i...
The Internet and Intranet reduce much of the costs of information sharing, but they do not solve receivers' reading and interpretation limitations. Alternatively, browsers an...
Ranking function performance reached a plateau in 1994. The reason for this is investigated. First the performance of BM25 is measured as the proportion of queries satisfied on th...
This paper proposes a method by which 5WlH (who, when, where, what, why, how, and predicate) information is used to classify and navigate Japaneselanguage texts. 5WlH information,...
Emergent Semantics is a new paradigm for inferring semantic meaning from implicit feedback by a sufficiently large number of users of an object retrieval system. In this paper, we ...