The focus of information retrieval evaluations, such as NIST's TREC evaluations (e.g. Voorhees 2003), is on evaluation of the information content of system responses. On the ...
Olga Babko-Malaya, Dan Hunter, Connie Fournelle, J...
We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
Query expansion is a long-studied approach for improving retrieval effectiveness by enhancing the user's original query with additional related words. Current algorithms for ...
One of the keys issues to content-based image retrieval is the similarity measurement of images. Images are represented as points in the space of low-level visual features and mos...
Abstract. This paper describes the participation of Dublin City University in the CriES (Cross-Lingual Expert Search) pilot challenge. To realize expert search, we combine traditio...