VideoCLEF 2009 offered three tasks related to enriching video content for improved multimedia access in a multilingual environment. For each task, video data (Dutch-language telev...
In this paper, we explored how to use meta-data information in information retrieval task. We presented a new language model that is able to take advantage of the category informa...
Rong Jin, Luo Si, Alexander G. Hauptmann, James P....
Paralinguistics organizers such as parenthesis, footnotes, and pop-up fields on screen, should play an important role signalling the writer’s “minimization” intention when se...
In this article we present a method for combining different information retrieval models in order to increase the retrieval performance in a Speech Information Retrieval task. The...
It seems the time is ripe for the two to meet: NLP has grown out of prototypes and IR is having hard time trying to improve precision. Two examples of possible approaches are consi...
This document describes the CLIPS experiments in the CLEF 2005 campaign. We used a surface-syntactic parser in order to extract new indexing terms. These terms are considered synta...
In the absence of explicit queries, an alternative is to try to infer users' interests from implicit feedback signals, such as clickstreams or eye tracking. The interests, fo...