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...
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...
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...
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...
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...