Statistical language models have recently been successfully applied to many information
retrieval problems. A great deal of recent work has shown that statistical language models …

The effectiveness of a video retrieval system largely depends on the choice of underlying
text and image retrieval components. The unique properties of video collections (eg, multiple …

The study of temporal dynamics and its impact can be framed within the so-called temporal
IR approaches, which explain how user behavior, document content and scale vary with …

The coinciding form and meaning similarity of cognates, eg 'flamme'(French),'Flamme'(
German),'vlam'(Dutch), meaning 'flame'in English, facilitates learning of additional …

Recent work on analyzing query logs shows that a significant fraction of queries are
temporal, ie, relevancy is dependent on time, and temporal queries play an important role in …

Historical and heritage collections consist for a considerable part of text and may incorporate
diverse text types such as journals, archival documents, and catalogue descriptions …

Taking the temporal dimension into account in searching, ie, using time of content creation
as part of the search condition, is now gaining increasingly interest. However, in the case of …

This paper presents a novel approach to the task of temporal text classification combining
text ranking and probability for the automatic dating of historical texts. The method was …

In order to increase precision in searching for web pages or web documents, taking the
temporal dimension into account is gaining increased interest. A particular problem for web …

Over the years, various meta-languages have been used to manually enrich documents with
conceptual knowledge of some kind. Examples include keyword assignment to citations or …