Abstract--User-system interaction is sometimes a cumbersome element of non-textual information access. Image retrieval systems now incorporate various interaction mechanisms. Howev...
Abstract. In this paper we propose an approach to deal with the ChineseEnglish cross-language image retrieval problem. Text-based image retrieval and query translation methods were...
Situational aspects are very helpful to decide relevance but they have often been left aside by Information Retrieval models. The standard logical approach to Information Retrieva...
This paper presents a new pooling method for constructing the assessment sets used in the evaluation of retrieval systems. Our proposal is based on RankBoost, a machine learning v...
The size of a document archive is a very important parameter for resource selection in distributed information retrieval systems. In this paper, we present a method for automatical...