Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...
The representation of information collections needs to be optimized for human cognition. While documents often include rich visual components, collections, including personal coll...
As XML documents contain both content and structure information, taking advantage of the document structure in the retrieval process can lead to better identify relevant informati...
Karen Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem, Claude Chrismen...
This paper proposes a model for Information Retrieval (IR) based on possibilistic directed networks. Relations documents-terms and query-terms are modeled through possibility and n...
In this paper, we present the system MULINEX, a fully implemented system which supports cross-lingual search of the WWW. Users can formulate, expand and disambiguate queries, filt...
Joanne Capstick, Abdel Kader Diagne, Gregor Erbach...