Topic tracking is an important task of Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT). Its purpose is to detect stories, from a stream of news, related to known topics. Each topic is âknownâ...
We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
This paper proposes an effective approach to provide relevant search terms for conceptual Web search. âSemantic Term Suggestionâ function has been included so that users can f...
The amount of scientiïŹc material available electronically is forever increasing. This makes reading the published literature, whether to stay up-to-date on a topic or to get up ...
Given the large heterogeneity of the World Wide Web, using metadata on the search engines side seems to be a useful track for information retrieval. Though, because a manual quali...
Camille Prime-Claverie, Michel Beigbeder, Thierry ...