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CLEF
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...
EDBT
2002
ACM
112views Database» more  EDBT 2002»
16 years 7 months ago
Querying with Intrinsic Preferences
The handling of user preferences is becoming an increasingly important issue in present-day information systems. Among others, preferences are used for information filtering and ex...
Jan Chomicki
CLEF
2004
Springer
16 years 7 days ago
Medical Image Retrieval Using Texture, Locality and Colour
We describe our experiments for the Image CLEF medical retrieval task. Our efforts were focused on the initial visual search. A content based approach was followed. We used textur...
Peter Howarth, Alexei Yavlinsky, Daniel Heesch, St...
ICDT
2007
ACM
120views Database» more  ICDT 2007»
16 years 1 months ago
Scalable Query Dissemination in XPeer
Abstract. This paper presents XPeer, a data sharing system for massively distributed XML data. XPeer allows users to publish and query heterogeneous information without any signiï¬...
Giovanni Conforti, Giorgio Ghelli, Paolo Manghi, C...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Interactive retrieval based on faceted feedback
Motivated by the commonly used faceted search interface in e-commerce, this paper investigates interactive relevance feedback mechanism based on faceted document metadata. In this...
Lanbo Zhang, Yi Zhang