For this year's web track, we concentrated on the entry page finding task. For the content-only runs, in both the ad-hoc task and the entry page finding task, we used an infor...
While participating in the HARD track our first question was, what an IR-application should look like that takes into account preference meta-data from the user, without the need ...
The purpose of extractive summarization is to automatically select a number of indicative sentences, passages, or paragraphs from the original document according to a target summa...
: This paper describes an ontology-based approach aiming at helping biologists to annotate their documents and at facilitating their information retrieval task. Our approach, based...
In this paper we present a method to jointly optimise the relevance and the diversity of the results in image retrieval. Without considering diversity, image retrieval systems oft...
Thomas Deselaers, Tobias Gass, Philippe Dreuw, Her...