In this paper, we present our participation in the ImageCLEF 2005 ad-hoc track. First, we describe a preliminary pool of cross-language experiments with the ImageCLEF 2004 testbed...
The application of nlp techniques to improve the results of information retrieval is still considered as a controversial issue, whereas nlp techniques in cross-language informatio...
This paper presents two sentence retrieval methods. We adopt the task definition done in the TREC Novelty Track: sentence retrieval consists in the extraction of the relevant sente...
The primary function of current Web search engines is essentially relevance ranking at the document level. However, myriad structured information about real-world objects is embed...
Zaiqing Nie, Yunxiao Ma, Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen,...
Well-designed indices can dramatically improve query performance. Including query workload information can produce indices that yield better overall throughput while balancing the...