: We describe our participation in the TREC 2003 Robust and Web tracks. For the Robust track, we experimented with the impact of stemming and feedback on the worst scoring topics. ...
Jaap Kamps, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, B&oum...
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Tropes, an object-based knowledge representation system, has been added three important intertwined features: constraints, composite objects and tasks. Constraints provide a decla...
In this paper, we develop a theoretical understanding of multi-sensory knowledge and user context and their interrelationships. This is used to develop a generic representation fr...
This study explores the benefits of integrating knowledge representations in prior art patent retrieval. Key to the introduced approach is the utilization of human judgment availa...
Erik Graf, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas, Keith va...