This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
—The main concern of the Internet user-base has shifted from what kind of information are available to how to find the desired information on the Internet thanks to the explosiv...
The information access and retrieval capabilities provided by several conventional search engines, while improving upon traditional techniques, are lacking in supporting conceptua...
This paper presents the results of the University at Buffalo in the 2006 ImageCLEFmed task. Our approach for this task combines Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) and text retrie...
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...