In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2009 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
We present an approach to document clustering based on winnowing fingerprints that achieved good values of effectiveness with considerable save in memory space and computation tim...
XML databases often contain documents comprising structured text. Therefore, it is important to integrate "information retrieval style" query evaluation, which is well-s...
One of the main challenges in interactive concept-based video search is the insufficient relevant sample problem, especially for queries with complex semantics. To address this pr...
Jin Yuan, Zheng-Jun Zha, Zhengdong Zhao, Xiangdong...