Ranking is a key problem in many information retrieval (IR) applications, such as document retrieval and collaborative filtering. In this paper, we address the issue of learning ...
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
In this paper, we focus on the ontological concept extraction and evaluation process from HTML documents. In order to improve this process, we propose an unsupervised hierarchical...
Abstract. The general photographic ad-hoc retrieval task of the ImageCLEF 2007 evaluation campaign is described. This task provides both the resources and the framework necessary t...
Michael Grubinger, Paul Clough, Allan Hanbury, Hen...