For our fourth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, our objective was to verify whether our combined query translation approach would work well with new requests and new...
Named entities in topics are a major factor contributing to the quality of retrieval results. In this paper, we report on an analysis on the correlation between the number of named...
In this year’s participation we continued to evaluate open source information retrieval software. We used mainly the system Lucene and experimented with some of the most effecti...
This report describes the approach used in our participation of ImageCLEF. Our focus is on image retrieval using text, i.e. Cross-Media IR. To do this, we first determine the str...
Carmen Alvarez, Ahmed Id Oumohmed, Max Mignotte, J...