Informationretrieval systems typically weight the importance of search terms according to document and collection statistics (such as by using tf idf scores, where less commonterm...
This paper describes work within the NIST Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) over the last three years in designing and implementing evaluations of Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) t...
John S. Garofolo, Cedric G. P. Auzanne, Ellen M. V...
With the globalization of the world markets, the need for multilingual information processing increases, because the users are increasingly forced to deal with information availab...
Traditionally work on multimedia structuring has been centered on the creation of indices and their use for searching. Although searching is important there are many cases where t...
Hierarchies have been used for organization, summarization, and access to information, yet a lingering issue is how best to construct them. In this paper, our goal is to automatic...