Portable, reusable test collections are a vital part of research and development in information retrieval. Reusability is difficult to assess, however. The standard approach— si...
Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu...
As ancient documents are being digitized, systems for retrieving documents or images can now be found in Digital Libraries. With regard to illustrations, the content-based image r...
In order to search within corpora written in two or more languages, the simplest and most effective approach is to translate the submitted request into the required language(s). To...
A number of experiments conducted within the framework of the TREC-5 conference and using the Parallel Document Retrieval Engine (PADRE) are reported. Several of the experiments i...
Abstract-This paper discusses the design and evaluation of CATNIP, a ContextAware Transport/Network Internet Protocol for the Web. This integrated protocol uses application-layer k...