This paper presents the second participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) task at CLEF 2006. We present the results of the submi...
This paper describes the medical image retrieval and medical image annotation tasks of ImageCLEF 2007. Separate sections describe each of the two tasks, with the participation and ...
We hypothesized that language modeling retrieval would improve if we reduced the need for document smoothing to provide an inverse document frequency (IDF) like effect. We create...
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
INEX, the evaluation initiative for content-oriented XML retrieval, has since its establishment defined the relevance of an element according to two graded dimensions, exhaustivit...