This paper explores the role of information retrieval in answering "relationship" questions, a new class complex information needs formally introduced in TREC 2005. Sinc...
While advances have been made in structuring, indexing and retrieval of multimedia documents, we propose to study the unexplored problematics of information retrieval on heterogen...
This paper addresses the relations between information retrieval (IR) and AI. It examines document retrieval, summarising its essential features and illustrating the state of its ...
This paper explores the integration of textual and visual information for cross-language image retrieval. An approach which automatically transforms textual queries into visual rep...
Building an effective Information Retrieval system requires various design choices, ranging from the weighting scheme to the type of morphological normalization. The combination ...