The power of search is with no doubt one of the main aspects for the success of the Web. Currently available search engines on the Web allow to return results with a high precisio...
This year, we have participated on Ad-Hoc Robust Multilingual track with the aim to evaluate two issues of CLIR systems. Firstly, this paper describes the method followed for quer...
In business, the retrieval of up-to-date, or fresh, information is very important. It is difficult for conventional search engines based on a centralized architecture to retrieve ...
If the model of free-form queries, which has proved successful for HTML based search on the Web, is made available for Grid services, it will serve as a powerful tool for scientis...
Abstract Searching for entities is an emerging task in Information Retrieval for which the goal is finding well defined entities instead of documents matching the query terms. In t...
Bodo Billerbeck, Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Fi...