This paper explores the role of information retrieval in answering "relationship" questions, a new class complex information needs formally introduced in TREC 2005. Sinc...
Documents in the Web are often organized using category trees by information providers (e.g. CNN, BBC) or search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo!). Such category trees are commonly kn...
This paper explores the integration of textual and visual information for cross-language image retrieval. An approach which automatically transforms textual queries into visual rep...
Building an effective Information Retrieval system requires various design choices, ranging from the weighting scheme to the type of morphological normalization. The combination ...
Musical databases are growing in number, size, and complexity, and they are becoming increasingly relevant for a broad range of academic as well as commercial applications. The fe...