The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
We consider the problem of document indexing and representation. Recently, Locality Preserving Indexing (LPI) was proposed for learning a compact document subspace. Different from...
The University of Maryland participated in the English and Czech tasks. For English, one monolingual run using only fields based on fully automatic transcription (the required con...
This paper continues the movement from technology centered to human centered approaches in the study of tasks that involve finding, understanding, and using information, and tools...
Many applications require analyzing vast amounts of textual data, but the size and inherent noise of such data can make processing very challenging. One approach to these issues i...
David G. Underhill, Luke McDowell, David J. Marche...