Abstract. This paper presents a series of experiments investigating the effectiveness of query-independent features extracted from retrieved objects to predict relevancy. Features...
This paper describes experimental use of the multi-agent architecture to integrate Natural Language and Information Systems research and teaching, by casting a group of students a...
This paper presents a study on if and how automatically extracted keywords can be used to improve text categorization. In summary we show that a higher performance -- as measured ...
We report on initial experiments in tree locking schemes for compiled database applications. Such applications have a repository style of architecture in which a collection of sof...
This paper describes the first large-scale evaluation of information retrieval systems using Dutch documents and queries. We describe in detail the characteristics of the Dutch te...