This paper describes a query algebra for queries over XML p2p databases that provides explicit mechanisms for modeling data dissemination, replication constraints, and for capturi...
This paper reports the participation of the University of Lisbon at the 2007 GeoCLEF task. We adopted a novel approach for GIR, focused on handling geographic features and feature ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Cruz, Marcirio Silveira Chaves...
Relevance feedback is the state-of-the-art approach for adjusting query results to the needs of the users. This work extends the existing framework of image retrieval with relevan...
Euripides G. M. Petrakis, Klaydios Kontis, Epimeni...
In this paper, we present the results of our work that seek to negotiate the gap between low-level features and high-level concepts in the domain of web document retrieval. This wo...
Our experiments in the Robust track this year focused on predicting query difficulty and using this prediction for improving information retrieval. We developed two prediction alg...
Elad Yom-Tov, Shai Fine, David Carmel, Adam Darlow...