This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
Abstract. We relate two well-studied methodologies in deductive verification of operationally modeled sequential programs, namely the use of inductive invariants and clock functio...
This paper reports the participation of the University of Lisbon at the 2007 GeoCLEF task. We adopted a novel approach for GIR, focused on handling geographic features and feature ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Cruz, Marcirio Silveira Chaves...
A known limitation of the Probability Ranking Principle (PRP) is that it does not cater for dependence between documents. Recently, the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QPRP)...
The dream of pervasive multimedia retrieval and reuse will not be realized without incorporating semantics in the multimedia database. As video data is penetrating many informatio...