Query expansion has been extensively studied as a technique for increasing information retrieval performance. However, due to the volume of documents available on the web, many of ...
The number of web pages available on Internet increases day after day, and consequently finding relevant information becomes more and more a hard task. However, when we consider ...
Aliaksandr Birukou, Enrico Blanzieri, Paolo Giorgi...
We study the problem of information brokerage in sensor networks, where information consumers (sinks, users) search for data acquired by information producers (sources). Innetwork...
The rapid growth of visual data over the last few years has lead to many schemes for retrieving such data. With content-based systems today, there exists a significant gap between...
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...