This paper reports the participation of the XLDB Group from the University of Lisbon in the CLEF 2006 ad-hoc monolingual and bilingual subtasks for Portuguese. We present our IR s...
The paper describes the conceptualisation process in the ReQuest approach, a wide-spectrum methodology for web-based information systems analysis and development. This methodology ...
Julien Vilz, Anne-France Brogneaux, Ravi Ramdoyal,...
Search computing is a novel discipline whose goal is to answer complex, multi-domain queries. Such queries typically require combining in their results domain knowledge extracted ...
In High Volume Manufacturing (HVM), system control is shared between automation and human workers. The social organisation of workers plays an important role in supporting human d...
Learning ranking (or preference) functions has been a major issue in the machine learning community and has produced many applications in information retrieval. SVMs (Support Vect...