The collective contributions of billions of users across the globe each day result in an ever-changing web. In verticals like news and real-time search, recency is an obvious sign...
Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is one of the most active research areas in recent years. Many visual feature representations have been explored and many systems built. Howev...
Abstract. This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2007 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. For the processing of man...
Complex web information structures prevent search engines from providing satisfactory context-sensitive retrieval. We see that in order to overcome this obstacle, it is essential t...
Documents in the Web are often organized using category trees by information providers (e.g. CNN, BBC) or search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo!). Such category trees are commonly kn...