The application of information retrieval techniques in interactive environments requires systems capable of efficiently processing vague queries. To reach reasonable response tim...
Support vector machines (SVMs) have been widely used in multimedia retrieval to learn a concept in order to find the best matches. In such a SVM active learning environment, the ...
Context influences the search process, but to date research has not definitively identified which aspects of context are the most influential for information retrieval, and thus a...
Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms, Charles L. A. Clark...
This paper presents the participation of FEUP, from University of Porto, in the TREC 2008 Blog Track. FEUP participated in two tasks, the baseline adhoc retrieval task and the blo...
This paper addresses two problems: “What are the appropriate methods for evaluating information systems?” and “How do we measure the impact of ambient information systems?...
Xiaobin Shen, Peter Eades, Seok-Hee Hong, Andrew V...