The representation of information collections needs to be optimized for human cognition. While documents often include rich visual components, collections, including personal coll...
Many of the successful multimedia retrieval systems focus on developing efficient and effective video retrieval solutions with the help of appropriate index structures. In these ...
MoBIoS is a specialized database management system whose storage manager is based on metric-space indexing, and whose query language entails biological data types. When relational...
Research on relevance feedback (RFB) in information retrieval (IR) has given mixed results. Success in RFB seems to depend on the searcher's willingness to provide feedback a...
Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...