Abstract. Relevance feedback, which uses the terms in relevant documents to enrich the user’s initial query, is an effective method for improving retrieval performance. An assoc...
Query expansion is an effective technique in improving the retrieval performance for ad-hoc retrieval. However, query expansion can also fail, leading to a degradation of the retri...
Orthophotos (or orthoimages if in digital form) have long been recognised as a supplement or alternative to standard maps. The increasing applications of orthoimages require effor...
Xiaoye Liu, Zhenyu Zhang, Jim Peterson, Shobhit Ch...
Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies (EPLT) [1] at the University of Washington maintains and supports a fleet of approximately 1,000 general-access student computin...
Syntactic information potentially plays a much more important role in question answering than it does in information retrieval. Although many people have used syntactic evidence i...