The difficulty of maintaining effective testbed partnerships, among users of computer-based tools and builders of those tools, has been an obstacle to the success of science colla...
For effective retrieval of visual information, statistical learning plays a pivotal role. Statistical learning in such a context faces at least two major mathematical challenges: ...
Abstract. This paper describes the design of the first large-scale IR test collection built for the Czech language. The creation of this collection also happens to be very challen...
Pavel Ircing, Pavel Pecina, Douglas W. Oard, Jianq...
Supporting semantic queries in relational databases is essential to many advanced applications. Recently, with the increasing use of ontology in various applications, the need for...
This paper explores the role of information retrieval in answering "relationship" questions, a new class complex information needs formally introduced in TREC 2005. Sinc...