Images are increasingly being embedded in HTML documents on the WWW. Such documents over the WWW essentially provides a rich source of image collection from which users can query....
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
In this paper we propose several merging strategies to integrate the result lists of each intermediate run in distributed MLIR. The prediction of retrieval effectiveness was used t...
Most cross language information retrieval research concentrates on language pairs for which direct, rich, and often multiple translation resources already exist. However, for most...
Bilingual term lists are extensively used as a resource for dictionary-based Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), in which the goal is to find documents written in one na...
Previous research on cluster-based retrieval has been inconclusive as to whether it does bring improved retrieval effectiveness over document-based retrieval. Recent developments ...
In participating in this CLEF evaluation campaign, our first objective is to propose and evaluate various indexing and search strategies for the Russian language, in order to obta...
We investigate the problem of determining the polarity of sentiments when one or more occurrences of a negation term such as “not” appear in a sentence. The concept of the sco...