—We outline SoftFacts, an ontology mediated top-k information retrieval system over relational databases. An ontology layer is used to define (in terms of a OWL-QL like Semantic...
We propose a formal model of Cross-Language Information Retrieval that does not rely on either query translation or document translation. Our approach leverages recent advances in...
We present a novel interpretation of Clarity [5], a widely used query performance predictor. While Clarity is commonly described as a measure of the “distance” between the lan...
Shay Hummel, Anna Shtok, Fiana Raiber, Oren Kurlan...
State-of-the-art Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (P2P IR) systems suffer from their lack of response time guarantee especially with scale. To address this issue, a number of tec...
Christian Zimmer, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Gerhard We...
We develop a framework for the automatic discovery of query classes for query-class-dependent search models in multimodal retrieval. The framework automatically discovers useful q...