A number of existing information retrieval systems propose the notion of query context to combine the knowledge of query and user into retrieval to reveal the most exact descripti...
Keke Cai, Chun Chen, Jiajun Bu, Peng Huang, Zhimin...
This paper reports on experiments submitted for the robust task at CLEF 2007. We applied a system previously tested for ad-hoc retrieval. Experiments were focused on the effect of...
We propose a set of sketch-based interaction techniques for efficient retrieval of multimedia related to locations. The user makes a simple sketch on a map to interact with it, in...
Finding biological entities (such as genes or proteins) that satisfy certain conditions from texts is an important and challenging task in biomedical information retrieval and tex...
Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...