Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...
Since 1986 we have investigated the problems and possibilities of applying modern information retrieval methods to large online public access library catalogs (OPACs). In the Retr...
Edward A. Fox, Robert K. France, Eskinder Sahle, A...
This paper presents the participation of the semantic N-levels search engine SENSE at the CLEF 2009 Ad Hoc Robust-WSD Task. During the participation at the same task of CLEF 2008,...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semera...
For this year's Image CLEF Photo Retrieval task, we have prepared 5 submission runs to help us assess the effectiveness of 1) image content-based retrieval, and 2) textbased ...
In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of PeerDB, a peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed data sharing system. PeerDB distinguishes itself from existing P2P systems in sever...