Navigation in and access to the contents of digital audio archives have become increasingly important topics in Information Retrieval. Both private and commercial music collection...
The world wide web is a natural setting for cross-lingual information retrieval. The European Union is a typical example of a multilingual scenario, where multiple users have to de...
For many years it has been commonly held that a user who adds structural “hints” to a query will improve precision in an element retrieval search. At INEX 2005 we conducted an...
Open information spaces have several unique characteristics such as their changeability, large size, complexity and diverse user base. These result in novel challenges during user...
In the KL divergence framework, the extended language modeling approach has a critical problem estimating a query model, which is the probabilistic model that encodes user’s inf...