Some previous works show that a web page can be partitioned to multiple segments or blocks, and usually the importance of those blocks in a page is not equivalent. Also, it is pro...
Ruihua Song, Haifeng Liu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma
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...
We present a class of web queries whose result is a multi-column relation instead of a collection of unstructured documents as in standard web search. The user specifies the query...
This paper describes our approach to the 2006 Adhoc Monolingual Information Retrieval run for French. The goal of our experiment was to compare the performance of a proposed stati...
Protein sequences are the most important source of evolutionary and functional information for new proteins. In order to facilitate the computationally intensive tasks of sequence...
Thomas Rattei, Patrick Tischler, Roland Arnold, Fr...