This paper describes the retrieval approach proposed by the SIG/EVI group of the IRIT research centre in INEX’2004 evaluation. The approach uses a voting method coupled with some...
This paper describes the evaluation of the XFIRM system in INEX 2004 framework. The XFIRM system uses a relevance propagation method to answer queries composed of content condition...
We describe our participation in the INEX 2009 Entity Ranking track. We employ a probabilistic retrieval model for entity search in which term-based and category-based representati...
Krisztian Balog, Marc Bron, Maarten de Rijke, Wout...
In this paper, a signature file method for indexing document database systems is presented. For this purpose, the concept of presentative word hierarchy is introduced, based on whi...
This paper evaluates the potential impact of explicit phrases on retrieval quality through a case study with the TREC Terabyte benchmark. It compares the performance of user- and s...