The emergence of the world-wide-web has led to an increased interest in methods for searching for information. A key characteristic of many of the online document collections is t...
This paper is concerned with relevance ranking in search, particularly that using term dependency information. It proposes a novel and unified approach to relevance ranking using ...
In an environment of distributed text collections, the first step in the information retrieval process is to identify which of all available collections are more relevant to a giv...
Our participation in the ImageCLEF Wikipedia retrieval task aims to study the efficiency of using two contextual factors in image retrieval: metadata which contains specific infor...
Hatem Awadi, Mouna Torjmen Khemakhem, Maher Ben Je...
Search engines largely rely on Web robots to collect information from the Web. Due to the unregulated open-access nature of the Web, robot activities are extremely diverse. Such c...