The huge amount of data available from Internet information sources has focused much attention on the sharing of distributed information through Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS...
In this paper, we address both standard and focused retrieval tasks based on comprehensible language models and interactive query expansion (IQE). Query topics are expanded using a...
– With the World Wide Web popularity the information retrieval area has a new challenge intending to retrieve information resources by their meaning by using a knowledge base. No...
Query expansion is a long-studied approach for improving retrieval effectiveness by enhancing the user's original query with additional related words. Current algorithms for ...
This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...