Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...
We propose a robust scene recognition system for baseball broadcast videos. This system is based on the data-driven approach which has been successful in continuous speech recogni...
Anecdotal evidence suggests that story-level information is important for the speech component of video retrieval. In this paper we perform a systematic examination of the combina...
The domain-specific track uses test collections from the social science domain to test monolingual and cross-language retrieval in structured bibliographic databases. Special atte...
Vivien Petras, Stefan Baerisch, Maximilian Stempfh...
We describe our system for the monolingual Dutch and multilingual English to Dutch QA tasks. First, we present a brief overview of our QA-system, which makes heavy use of syntacti...