We research whether the inclusion of information about an information user's social environment and his position in the social network of his peers leads to an improval in sea...
Sebastian Marius Kirsch, Melanie Gnasa, Armin B. C...
We present a prototype system using array comprehensions to bridge the gap between databases and information retrieval. It allows researchers to express their retrieval models in t...
Most question answering (QA) and information retrieval (IR) systems are insensitive to different users' needs and preferences, and also to the existence of multiple, complex ...
- The use of a PDA with ad-hoc built-in information retrieval functionalities can help people in visiting an historical site in a natural manner instead of traditional audio/visual...
Antonella Santangelo, Agnese Augello, Antonio Gent...
In this paper we present a multilingual information retrieval system that provides access to Tourism information by exploiting the intuitiveness of natural language. In particular...
We report on the development of a new automatic feedback model to improve information retrieval in digital libraries. Our hypothesis is that some particular sentences, selected ba...
Patrick Ruch, Imad Tbahriti, Julien Gobeill, Alan ...
General information retrieval systems are designed to serve all users without considering individual needs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to personalized search. It c...
Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wa...
This paper explores the role of information retrieval in answering "relationship" questions, a new class complex information needs formally introduced in TREC 2005. Sinc...
Traditional information retrieval (IR) systems respond to user queries with ranked lists of relevant documents. The separation of content and structure in XML documents allows indi...
Nowadays we enter the Web 2.0 era where people’s participation is a key principle. In this context, collective annotations enable to share and discuss readers’ feedback with r...
Guillaume Cabanac, Max Chevalier, Claude Chrisment...