We describe the integration of a structuredtext retrieval system (TextMachine) into an object-oriented database system (OpenODB). We use the external function capability of the da...
This paper describes our diversity featured retrieval system which are built for the task of ImageCLEFPhoto 2008. Two existing tools are used: Solr and Carrot2 . We have experimen...
Jiayu Tang, Thomas Arni, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clou...
Our experiments in the Robust track this year focused on predicting query difficulty and using this prediction for improving information retrieval. We developed two prediction alg...
Elad Yom-Tov, Shai Fine, David Carmel, Adam Darlow...
Accurately and effectively detecting the locations where search queries are truly about has huge potential impact on increasing search relevance. In this paper, we define a search...
Lee Wang, Chuang Wang, Xing Xie, Josh Forman, Yans...
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...