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...
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is concerned with the retrieval of documents based on both thematic and geographic content. An important issue in GIR, as for all IR, is rele...
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a common phrase index as an efficient index structure to support phrase queries in a very large text database. Our structure is an extension of ...
Presentation of search results in Web-based information retrieval (IR) systems has been dominated by a textual form of information such as the title, snippet, URL, and/or file type...
In-place and merge-based index maintenance are the two main competing strategies for on-line index construction in dynamic information retrieval systems based on inverted lists. Mo...
We examine the use of authorship information in information retrieval for closed communities by extracting expert rankings for queries. We demonstrate that these rankings can be us...
Abstract. WWW Video Search Engines have become increasingly commonplace within the last few years and at the same time video retrieval research has been receiving more attention wi...
Rule-based email filters mainly rely on the occurrence of critical words to classify spam messages. However, perceptive obfuscation techniques can be used to elude exact pattern ma...
Valerio Freschi, Andrea Seraghiti, Alessandro Bogl...
Abstract. The Multiple Bernoulli (MB) Language Model has been generally considered too computationally expensive for practical purposes and superseded by the more efficient multino...