Several IR tasks rely, to achieve high efficiency, on a single pervasive data structure called the inverted index. This is a mapping from the terms in a text collection to the docu...
During the last years a great number of Query Performance Prediction methods have been proposed. However, this explosion of prediction method proposals have not been paralleled by ...
As an alternative to vector representations, a recent trend in image classification suggests to integrate additional structural information in the description of images in order to...
Given the dizzying pace of change in computer science, trying to look too far into the future of software engineering is hard. However, it might be possible to predict the future ...
- Today there is a real challenge in accessing relevant information according to the needs and the context of the user. Recent studies have dynamically enhanced the user query with...