This article describes the use of the medGIFT and easyIR retrieval systems for three of the four ImageCLEF 2005 retrieval tasks. We participated in the ad–hoc retrieval task that...
We study information elicitation mechanisms in which a principal agent attempts to elicit the private information of other agents using a carefully selected payment scheme based o...
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...
Query translation in Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) can be performed using multiple resources. Previous attempts to combine different translation resources use simple...
We investigate an automatic method for Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) that utilizes the multilingual UMLS Metathesaurus to translate Spanish and French natural languag...
David Eichmann, Miguel E. Ruiz, Padmini Srinivasan