Reliability Tests for the XCG and inex-2002 Metrics (2009)
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Arjen De Vries
Abstract. In this paper we compare the effectiveness scores and system rankings obtained with the inex-2002 metric, the official measure of INEX 2004, and the XCG metrics proposed in [4] and further...
structured document retrieval, structured text retrieval, semi-structured text retrieval, focused retrieval, content-oriented XML retrieval DEFINITION Text documents often contain a mixture of...
INEX 2007 Evaluation Measures (Draft) (2008)
Jovan Pehcevski, Jaap Kamps, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Benjamin Piwowarski, Stephen Robertson
Abstract. This paper describes the official measures of retrieval effectiveness that are planned to be employed for the ad hoc track of INEX 2007. 1
The Flow of Information in Information Retrieval: its modelling (2008)
Information is, and always has been, an elusive concept; nevertheless many philosophers, mathematicians, logicians and computer scientists have felt that it is fundamental. Many attempts have been...
Sihem Amer-yahia, Mariano Consens, Ricardo Baeza-yates, Mounia Lalmas
� DB focused on languages, expressiveness and efficient evaluation � IR focused on scoring and relevance metrics � In practice, p a limited set of operations p and simple ranking go a long way...
Massih R. Amini, Anastasios Tombros, Nicolas Usunier, Mounia Lalmas, Patrick Gallinari, Marie Curie
Documents formatted in eXtensible Markup Language (XML) are becoming increasingly available in collections of various document types. In this paper, we present an approach for the summarisation of...
Massih R. Amini, Anastasios Tombros, Nicolas Usunier, Mounia Lalmas, Patrick Gallinari, Marie Curie
Documents formatted in eXtensible Markup Language (XML) are becoming increasingly available in collections of various document types. In this paper, we present an approach for the summarisation of...
Combining Evidence for Relevance Criteria: a Framework and Experiments in Web Retrieval (2008)
Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas
Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating these criteria. This...
Stamatina Betsi, Mounia Lalmas, Anastasios Tombros, Theodora Tsikrika
The primary aim of XML element retrieval is to return to users XML elements, rather than whole documents. This poster describes a small study, in which we elicited users’ expectations, i.e. their...
Gabriella Kazai, Alan Pearmain, Marie-luce Bourguet, Mounia Lalmas
which brings together key broadcasters, researchers, academics and industrialists across Europe, to advance the convergence of broadcasting and the Internet. SAVANT is developing integrated broadcast...
A scalable framework for multimedia knowledge (2008)
Yves Raimond, Samer A. Abdallah, Mark S, Mounia Lalmas
management
XML Multimedia Retrieval (2008)
Abstract. Multimedia XML documents can be viewed as a tree, whose nodes correspond to XML elements, and where multimedia objects are referenced in attributes as external entities. This paper...
Accessing XML documents: the INEX initiative (2008)
Mounia Lalmas, Thomas Rölleke, Zoltán Szlávik, Tassos Tombros
This document reports on the work carried out during INEX 2004, the evaluation initiative for the evaluation of XML retrieval. We discuss the main track of the initiative, the ad hoc track, and two...
Ian Ruthven, Mounia Lalmas, Keith Van Rijsbergen
user search behaviour into relevance feedback
and Information Sciences (2008)
Ian Ruthven, Mounia Lalmas, Keith Rijsbergen
In this paper we examine the problem of ranking candidate expansion terms for query expansion. We show, by an extension to the traditional F4 scheme, how partial relevance assessments (how relevant a...
Using Topic shifts for Focussed Access to XML Repositories (2008)
Abstract. In focussed XML retrieval, a retrieval unit is an XML element that not only contains information relevant to a user query, but also is specific to the query. INEX defines a relevant element...
Additional Key Words and Phrases (2008)
Fabio Crestani, Mounia Lalmas, Iain Campbell
The paper provides an introduction to and survey of probabilistic approaches to modelling Information Retrieval. The basic concepts of probabilistic approaches to Information Retrieval are outlined,...
How to retrieve multimedia documents described by MPEG-7 (2008)
Nastaran Fatemi, Mounia Lalmas, Thomas Rölleke
Abstract. The “Semantic Web ” aims at enhancing the functionality of the current web to bring “meaning” to the content of web pages so that to considerably improve the access to this content....
Modelling Good Entry Pages on the Web (2008)
Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas
Abstract. Being a good entry page to a Web site reflects how well the page enables a user to obtain optimal access, by browsing, to relevant and quality pages within the site. Our aim is to model a...
Zoltán Szlávik, Anastasios Tombros, Mounia Lalmas
and query-based table of contents
MPEG7 FOR AN INTEGRATED ACCESS TO BROADCAST AND INTERNET DATA 1 (2008)
Dinusha Ileperuma, Mounia Lalmas, Thomas Rölleke
Current developments in digital interactive TV aim at providing applications that integrate digital broadcast and internet data. There is, therefore, the need to provide effective integrated access...
Using Dempster-Shafer's Theory of Evidence (2008)
To Combine Aspects, Ian Ruthven, Mounia Lalmas
In this paper we propose a model for relevance feedback. Our model combines evidence from user's relevance assessments with algorithms describing how words are used within documents. We motivate...
Dunedin, New Zealand. Editors: (2008)
Held In Singapore, Andrew Trotman, Shlomo Geva, Andrew Trotman, Shlomo Geva, Jaap Kamps, ...
Proceedings of the
A Dempster-Shafer Model for Document Retrieval using Noun Phrases (2007)
Marcos Theophylactou, Mounia Lalmas
In this paper, we propose a document retrieval system based on natural language processing of documents and queries. We use single terms and term groups as indexing elements to represent documents...
A model for representing and retrieving heterogeneous structured documents
Formal Combination of Document Representations Based on Evidential Reasoning (2007)
This paper presents a formal framework for the combination of document representations based on evidential reasoning. An indexing method is modelled by an agent. Identified indexing elements are...
SEARCHING ANNOTATED BROADCAST CONTENT ON MOBILE AND STATIONARY DEVICES (2007)
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Alan Pearmain, Marie-luce Bourguet
This paper describes, within the framework of the European IST SAVANT project, the development of a search engine that supports transparent access to annotated broadcast content from different types...
Modelling vague content and structure querying
Schloss Dagstuhl, Norbert Fuhr, Norbert Gövert, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas
The widespread use of XML in digital libraries, product catalogues, scientific data repositories and across the Web prompted the development of appropriate retrieval (searching and browsing) methods...
1. HISTORY OF PROBABILISTIC MODELING IN IR (2007)
Fabio Crestani, Mounia Lalmas, Iain Campbell
This article surveys probabilistic approaches to modeling information retrieval. The basic concepts of probabilistic approaches to information retrieval are outlined and the principles and...
Aggregated Representation for the Focussed Retrieval of Structured Documents (2007)
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Thomas Rölleke
Effective retrieval of structured documents should exploit the content and structural knowledge associated with the documents. This knowledge can be used to focus retrieval to the best entry points:...
Mounia Lalmas, Ekaterini Moutogianni
A Dempster-Shafer indexing for the focussed retrieval of a hierarchically structured document space: Implementation and experiments on a web
Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Access: Current Trends (2007)
The current trends of research in information access as emerged from the 1999 Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems (LUMIS'99) are briefly reviewed in this paper. We...
SEARCHING MULTIMEDIA DATA USING MPEG-7 DESCRIPTIONS IN A BROADCAST TERMINAL (2007)
Mounia Lalmas, Katerina Moutogianni, Thomas Rölleke, Benoit Mory, Wolfgang Putz
MPEG-7 is an emerging standard for representing information carried by multimedia data. Such a standard is considered to be crucial for the oncoming integration of broadcast (TV) and Internet...
Gertrud Jeschke, Mounia Lalmas
This paper investigates an approach for text categorization that combines neural networks and the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence to represent hierarchical relationships between categories.
EuroSearch: Automatic categorisation of web documents # (2007)
Abstract We present an approach to automatic categorisation of web documents. For performing the task of categorisation the well-known k-nearest neighbour method is applied. We give a probabilistic...
Combining evidence for Web retrieval using the inference network model: an (2007)
Experimental Study Theodora, Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas
In the Web context, link-based evidence is most commonly used in conjunction with contentbased evidential information in order to improve retrieval effectiveness. This paper examines the impact the...
Searching Multimedia Data Using Mpeg-7 (2007)
Descriptions In Broadcast, Mounia Lalmas, Benoit Mory, Katerina Moutogianni, Thomas Rölleke
MPEG-7 is an emerging standard for representing information carried by multimedia data. Such a standard is considered crucial for the oncoming integration of broadcast (TV) and Internet technologies...
Report on the INEX 2003 Workshop, Schloss Dagstuhl, 15-17 December 2003 (2007)
This paper reports on the work presented and discussed at the workshop
INEX 2007 Evaluation Measures (2007)
Pehcevski, Jovan, Kamps, Jaap, Kazai, Gabriella, Lalmas, Mounia, Ogilvie, Paul, Piwowarski, Benjamin, ...
This paper describes the official measures of retrieval effectiveness that are planned to be employed for the ad hoc track of INEX 2007.
Evaluating Relevant in Context: Document Retrieval with a Twist (2007)
Kamps, Jaap, Lalmas, Mounia, Pehcevski, Jovan
The Relevant in Context retrieval task is document or article retrieval with a twist, where not only the relevant articles should be retrieved but also the relevant information within each article...
INEX 2006 Evaluation Measures (2007)
Lalmas, Mounia, Kazai, Gabriella, Kamps, Jaap, Pehcevski, Jovan, Piwowarski, Benjamin, Robertson, Stephen
This paper describes the official measures of retrieval effectiveness employed at the ad hoc track of INEX 2006.
INEX 2007 Evaluation Measures (2007)
Pehcevski, Jovan, Kamps, Jaap, Kazai, Gabriella, Lalmas, Mounia, Ogilvie, Paul, Piwowarski, Benjamin, ...
This paper describes the official measures of retrieval effectiveness that are planned to be employed for the ad hoc track of INEX 2007.
Evaluating Relevant in Context: Document Retrieval with a Twist (2007)
Kamps, Jaap, Lalmas, Mounia, Pehcevski, Jovan
The Relevant in Context retrieval task is document or article retrieval with a twist, where not only the relevant articles should be retrieved but also the relevant information within each article...
INEX 2006 Evaluation Measures (2007)
Lalmas, Mounia, Kazai, Gabriella, Kamps, Jaap, Pehcevski, Jovan, Piwowarski, Benjamin, Robertson, Stephen
This paper describes the official measures of retrieval effectiveness employed at the ad hoc track of INEX 2006.
and A.Tombros. INEX 2002 - 2006: Understanding XML Retrieval Evaluation (2007)
Mounia Lalmas, Anastasios Tombros
Abstract. Evaluating the effectiveness of XML retrieval requires building test collections where the evaluation paradigms are provided according to criteria that take into account structural aspects....
Overview of the INEX 2007 ad hoc track (2007)
Norbert Fuhr, Jaap Kamps, Mounia Lalmas, Saadia Malik
Abstract. This paper gives an overview of the INEX 2007 Ad Hoc Track. The main purpose of the Ad Hoc Track was to investigate the value of the internal document structure (as provided by the XML...
Learning-based summarisation of XML documents,” Information Systems (2007)
Massih R. Amini, Anastasios Tombros, Nicolas Usunier, Mounia Lalmas, Marie Curie
Abstract. Documents formatted in eXtensible Markup Language (XML) are available in collections of various document types. In this paper, we present an approach for the summarisation of XML documents....
Held In Amsterdam, The Netherl, Andrew Trotman, Shlomo Geva, Jaap Kamps, Andrew Trotman, ...
Proceedings of the
INEX 2006 evaluation measures (2007)
Mounia Lalmas, Gabriella Kazai, Jaap Kamps, Jovan Pehcevski, Stephen Robertson
Abstract. This paper describes the official measures of retrieval effectiveness employed at the ad hoc track of INEX 2006. 1
INEX 2007 evaluation measures (2007)
Jaap Kamps, Jovan Pehcevski, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Stephen Robertson
Abstract. This paper describes the official measures of retrieval effectiveness that are employed for the Ad Hoc Track at INEX 2007. Whereas in earlier years all, but only, XML elements could be...
Learning Based Summarization of XML Documents (2006)
Amini, Massih, Tombros, Anastasios, Usunier, Nicolas, Lalmas, Mounia
Documents formatted in eXtensible Markup Language (XML) are available in collections of various document types. In this paper, we present an approach for the summarisation of XML documents. The...
The use of summaries in XML retrieval (2006)
Zoltán Szlávik, Anastasios Tombros, Mounia Lalmas
Abstract. The availability of the logical structure of documents in contentoriented XML retrieval can be beneficial for users of XML retrieval systems. However, research into structured document...
Saadia Malik, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Norbert Fuhr
Abstract. Since 2002, INEX has been working towards the goal of establishing an infrastructure, in the form of a large XML test collection and appropriate scoring methods, for the evaluation of...
M.: INEX 2005 evaluation measures (2006)
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas
Abstract. This paper describes the official measures of retrieval effectiveness employed in INEX 2005: the eXtended Cumulated Gain (XCG) measures. In addition, results of correlation analysis are...
Saadia Malik, Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas, Norbert Fuhr
Abstract. Since 2002, INEX has been working towards the goal of establishing an infrastructure, in the form of a large XML test collection and appropriate scoring methods, for the evaluation of...
Sound and complete relevance assessments for XML retrieval (2006)
Benjamin Piwowarski, Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas
In information retrieval research, comparing retrieval approaches requires test collections consisting of documents, user requests and relevance assessments. Obtaining relevance assessments that are...
Structural Feedback for Keyword-Based XML Retrieval (2006)
Schenkel, Ralf, Theobald, Martin, Lalmas, Mounia, MacFarlane, Andy, Rüger, Stefan M., Tombros, Anastasios, ...
Keyword-based queries are an important means to retrieve information from XML collections with unknown or complex schemas. Relevance Feedback integrates relevance information provided by a user to...
Relevance Feedback for Structural Query Expansion (2006)
Schenkel, Ralf, Theobald, Martin, Fuhr, Norbert, Lalmas, Mounia, Malik, Saadia, Kazai, Gabriella
Keyword-based queries are an important means to retrieve information from XML collections with unknown or complex schemas. Relevance Feedback integrates relevance information provided by a user to...
Automatic Document Organization in a P2P Environment (2006)
Siersdorfer, Stefan, Sizov, Sergej, Lalmas, Mounia, MacFarlane, Andy, Rüger, Stefan M., Tombros, Anastasios, ...
This paper describes an efficient method to construct reliable machine learning applications in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks by building ensemble based meta methods. We consider this problem in the...
TopX & XXL at INEX 2005 (Ad-Hoc Track) (2006)
Theobald, Martin, Schenkel, Ralf, Weikum, Gerhard, Fuhr, Norbert, Lalmas, Mounia, Malik, Saadia, ...
We participated with two different and independent search engines in this year's INEX round: The XXL Search Engine and the TopX engine. As this is the first participation for TopX, this paper focuses...
TopX - AdHoc Track and Feedback Task (2006)
Theobald, Martin, Broschart, Andreas, Schenkel, Ralf, Solomon, Silvana, Weikum, Gerhard, Fuhr, Norbert, ...
This paper describes the setup and results of our contributions to the INEX 2006 AdHoc and Feedback tasks.
Learning to Summarise XML Documents by Combining Content and Structure Features (2005)
Amini, Massih, Anastasios, Tombros, Usunier, Nicolas, Lalmas, Mounia, Gallinari, Patrick
Documents formatted in eXtensible Markup Language (XML) are becoming increasingly available in collections of various document types. In this paper, we present an approach for the summarisation of...
A metadata model supporting scalable interactive TV services (2005)
Gwenael Durand, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Uwe Rauschenbach, Patrick Wolf
In this paper, we introduce a novel metadata model for describing scalable and interactive TV services that can be enriched with supplemental multimedia information. The model allows users to access...
Report On The, Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas
On the 30 th July 2005, a workshop on XML element retrieval methodology was held as part of the Information Retrieval Festival at the University of Glasgow. Ten papers were presented in four...
The Interpretation of CAS (2005)
Andrew Trotman And, Mounia Lalmas
There has been much debate over how to interpret the structure in queries that contain structural hints. At INEX 2003 and 2004, there were two interpretations: SCAS in which the user specified target...
The Interpretation of CAS (2005)
Abstract. There has been much debate over how to interpret the structure in queries that contain structural hints. At INEX 2003 and 2004, there were two interpretations: SCAS in which the user...
Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas, Norbert Fuhr, Andrew Trotman, Norbert Fuhr, Andrew Trotman, ...
Proceedings of the
TopX & XXL at INEX 2005 (2005)
Theobald, Martin, Schenkel, Ralf, Weikum, Gerhard, Fuhr, Norbert, Lalmas, Mounia, Malik, Saadia, ...
We participated with two different and independent search engines in this year's INEX round: The XXL Search Engine and the TopX engine. As this is the first participation for TopX, this paper focuses...
Relevance Feedback for Structural Query Expansion (2005)
Schenkel, Ralf, Theobald, Martin, Fuhr, Norbert, Lalmas, Mounia, Malik, Saadia, Kazai, Gabriella
eyword-based queries are an important means to retrieve information from XML collections with unknown or complex schemas. Relevance Feedback integrates relevance information provided by a user to...
Providing Consistent and Exhaustive Relevance Assessments for XML Retrieval Evaluation (2004)
Piwowarski, Benjamin, Lalmas, Mounia
Comparing retrieval approaches requires test collections, which consist of documents, queries and relevance assessments. Obtaining consistent and exhaustive relevance assessments is crucial for the...
Schenkel, Ralf, Theobald, Anja, Weikum, Gerhard, Fuhr, Norbert, Lalmas, Mounia, Malik, Saadia
Information retrieval on XML combines retrieval on content data (element and attribute values) with retrieval on structural data (element and attribute names). Standard query languages for XML such...
Scalable and Personalised broadcast service (2004)
James Bywater, Marie-luce Bourguet, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Alan Pearmain
An aspect of the European IST SAVANT (Synchronised and Scalable Audio Visual content Across NeTworks) project is the personalisation of interactive TV systems combining broadcast programmes with...
Overview of the initiative for the evaluation of xml retrieval (inex) 2003 (2004)
Norbert Fuhr, Saadia Malik, Mounia Lalmas
The widespread use of the extensible Markup Language (XML) in scientific data repositories, digital libraries and on the web, brought about an explosion in the development of XML retrieval systems....
European Research Letter (2004)
Report On The, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Norbert Fuhr, Norbert Gövert
this article, we provide an overview of the first round of the INEX initiative
A study of the assessment of relevance for the INEX'02 test collection (2004)
Gabriella Kazai, Sherezad Masood, Mounia Lalmas
We investigate possible assessment trends and inconsistencies within the collected relevance assessments of the INEX'02 test collection in order to provide a critical analysis of the employed...
The Overlap Problem in Content-Oriented XML Retrieval Evaluation (2004)
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas
Within the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX) a number of metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of content-oriented XML retrieval approaches were developed. Although these metrics...
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas
Video and XML retrieval test collections call for evaluation metrics that do not require a predefined retrieval unit. The use of traditional recall and precision metrics is problematic due to issues...
Searching Annotated Broadcast Content on Mobile and Stationary Devices (2004)
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Alan Pearmain, Marie-luce Bourguet
This paper describes, within the framework of the European IST SAVANT project, the development of a search engine that supports transparent access to annotated broadcast content from different types...
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas
Video and XML retrieval test collections call for evaluation metrics that do not require a predefined retrieval unit. The use of traditional recall and precision metrics is problematic due to issues...
Scalable and Personalised broadcast service (2004)
James Bywater, Marie-luce Bourguet, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Alan Pearmain
An aspect of the European IST SAVANT (Synchronised and Scalable Audio Visual content Across NeTworks) project is the personalisation of interactive TV systems combining broadcast programmes with...
Integrating xlink and xpath to retrieve structured multimedia documents in digital libraries (2004)
To support the retrieval of multimedia data according to user information needs, multimedia information retrieval in digital libraries must be based on semantics and not just primitive features of...
The overlap problem in content-oriented XML retrieval evaluation (2004)
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas
Within the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX) a number of metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of content-oriented XML retrieval approaches were developed. Although these metrics...
Schenkel, Ralf, Theobald, Anja, Weikum, Gerhard, Fuhr, Norbert, Lalmas, Mounia, Malik, Saadia
Information retrieval on XML combines retrieval on content data (element and attribute values) with retrieval on structural data (element and attribute names). Standard query languages for XML such...
Scalable and Personalised broadcast service (2004)
James Bywater, Marie-luce Bourguet, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Alan Pearmain
An aspect of the European IST SAVANT (Synchronised and Scalable Audio Visual content Across NeTworks) project is the personalisation of interactive TV systems combining broadcast programmes with...
The INEX Evaluation Initiative (2003)
Gabriella Kazai, Norbert Gövert, Mounia Lalmas, Norbert Fuhr
The widespread use of the extensible Markup Language (XML) on the Web and in Digital Libraries brought about an explosion in the development of XML tools, including systems to store and access XML...
Automatic Identification of Best Entry Points for Focussed Structured Document Retrieval (2003)
Focussed structured document retrieval employs the concept of best entry points (BEPs), which are intended to provide optimal starting-points from which users can browse to relevant document...
Using Metadata To Provide Scalable Broadcast And (2003)
Internet Content And, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Marie-luce Bourguet, Alan Pearmain
This paper deals with the use of metadata standards such as MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 to drive the automatic adaptation and personalisation of scalable broadcast and Internet content and services
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Marie-luce Bourguet, Alan Pearmain
This paper describes two scenarios demonstrating the application of the scalable content and services, and provides an overview of the SAVANT system, in particular, the terminal where users access...
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Content-Oriented XML Retrieval (2003)
Norbert Gövert, Norbert Fuhr, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas
this paper, we show that evaluation methods developed for standard test collection must be modified in order to deal with retrieval of structured documents. Specifically, size and overlap of document...
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Alan Pearmain, Marie-luce Bourguet
this paper we focus on the content access system and within it the search and retrieval engine. We define an architecture that supports the use of different user terminals and builds on established...
Using Metadata to Provide Scalable Broadcast and Internet Content and Services (2003)
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Marie-luce Bourguet, Alan Pearmain
This paper deals with the use of metadata standards such as MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 to drive the automatic adaptation and personalisation of scalable broadcast and Internet content and services
Abductive Retrieval for Multimedia Information Seeking (2003)
Ian Ruthven, Mounia Lalmas, Thomas Rölleke
In this paper we discuss an approach to the retrieval of data annotated using the MPEG-7 multimedia description schema. In particular we describe a framework for the retrieval of annotated video...
Construction of a Test Collection for the Focussed (2003)
Retrieval Of Structured, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Jane Reid
In this paper, we examine the methodological issues involved in constructing test collections of structured documents and obtaining best entry points for the evaluation of the focussed retrieval of...
Incorporating user search behavior into relevance feedback (2003)
Ian Ruthven, Mounia Lalmas, Keith Van Rijsbergen
In this paper, we present five user experiments on incorporating behavioral information into the relevance feedback process. In particular, we concentrate on ranking terms for query expansion and...
Construction of a test collection for the focussed retrieval of structured documents (2003)
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Jane Reid
Abstract. In this paper, we examine the methodological issues involved in constructing test collections of structured documents and obtaining best entry points for the evaluation of the focussed...
Using MPEG-7 at the Consumer Terminal in Broadcasting (2002)
Alan Pearmain, Mounia Lalmas, Ekaterina Moutogianni, Damien Papworth, Pat Healey, Thomas Rölleke
The European Union IST research programme SAMBITS (System for Advanced Multimedia Broadcast and IT Services) project is using Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), the DVB Multimedia Home Platform (MHP)...
Using Dempster-Shafer’s Theory of Evidence to Combine Aspects of Information Use (2002)
In this paper we propose a model for relevance feedback. Our model combines evidence from user's relevance assessments with algorithms describing how words are used within documents. We motivate...
An Appropriate Unit of Retrieval Results for XML Document Retrieval (2002)
Norbert Fuhr, Norbert Gövert, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Workshop Programme V, Ray R. Larson, ...
Xjuru- an XML retrieval system at INEX’02
The accessibility dimension for structured document retrieval (2002)
Thomas Roelleke, Mounia Lalmas, Gabriella Kazai, Ian Ruthven
Abstract. Structured document retrieval aims at retrieving document components that best satisfy a query, instead of merely retrieving predefined document units. This paper reports on an...
r. Four-valued knowledge augmentation for representing structured documents (2002)
Mounia Lalmas, Thomas Roelleke
Abstract. Structured documents are composed of objects with a content and a logical structure. The effective retrieval of structured documents requires models that provide for a content-based...
Focussed Structured Document Retrieval (2002)
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Thomas Roelleke
Focussed structured document retrieval aims at retrieving best entry points from where users can browse to access relevant document components in the document structure. In this paper, we report on...
Focussed Structured Document Retrieval (2002)
Gabrialla Kazai Mounia, Mounia Lalmas, Thomas Roelleke
Focussed structured document retrieval aims at retrieving best entry points from where users can browse to access relevant document components in the document structure. In this paper, we report on...
Combining and Selecting Characteristics of Information Use (2002)
Ian Ruthven, Mounia Lalmas, Keith Van Rijsbergen
In this paper we report on a series of experiments designed to investigate the combination of term and document weighting functions in Information Retrieval. We describe a series of weighting...
Using MPEG-7 at the Consumer Terminal in Broadcasting (2002)
Thomas Rölleke, Pat Healey, Damien Papworth, Ekaterina Moutogianni, Mounia Lalmas, Alan Pearmain
The European Union IST research programme SAMBITS (System for Advanced Multimedia Broadcast and IT Services) project is using Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), the DVB Multimedia Home Platform (MHP)...
Using MPEG-7 at the Consumer Terminal in Broadcasting (2002)
Alan Pearmain, Mounia Lalmas, Ekaterina Moutogianni, Damien Papworth, Pat Healey, Thomas Rölleke
The European Union IST research programme SAMBITS (System for Advanced Multimedia Broadcast and IT Services) project is using Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), the DVB Multimedia Home Platform (MHP)...
Logic and Uncertainty in Information Retrieval (2001)
Abstract The use of logic in Information Retrieval (IR) enables one to formulate models that are more general than other well known IR models. Indeed, some logical models are able to represent,...
Intelligent retrieval of hypermedia documents (2001)
Mounia Lalmas, Thomas Rölleke, Norbert Fuhr
Abstract. Intelligent retrieval of hypermedia documents requires sophisticated document representations and querying facilities that allow for content-based and fact-based querying as well as...
Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Thomas Rölleke
Effective retrieval of structured documents should exploit the content and structural knowledge associated with the documents. This knowledge can be used to focus retrieval to the best entry points:...
Intelligent retrieval of hypermedia documents (2001)
Mounia Lalmas, Thomas Rölleke, Norbert Fuhr
Abstract. Intelligent retrieval of hypermedia documents requires sophisticated document representations and querying facilities that allow for content-based and fact-based querying as well as...
Concepts for a graphical user interface for hypermedia retrieval (2000)
Mounia Lalmas, Thomas Reke, Frank Turra, Norbert Fuhr
Abstract. Which concepts are general and specific enough to support hypermedia retrieval? We present in this paper a graphical user interface that makes explicit the following three key concepts for...
Concepts for a graphical user interface for hypermedia retrieval (2000)
Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary, Westfield College, Thomas Rolleke, Frank Turra
Which concepts are general and specific enough to support hypermedia retrieval? We present in this paper a graphical user interface that makes explicit the following three key concepts for hypermedia...
Integrating internet and digital video broadcast data (2000)
Patrick Healey, Mounia Lalmas, Ekaterini Moutogianni, Yakup Paker, Alan Pearmain
The form, and means of delivery, of digital multimedia content are developing rapidly. This paper outlines our approach to exploiting these developments through the integration of broadcast and...
Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Access: Current Trends (1999)
The current trends of research in information access as emerged from the 1999 Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems (LUMIS’99) are briefly reviewed in this paper. We...
Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Access: Current Trends (1999)
The current trends of research in information access as emerged from the 1999 Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems (LUMIS'99) are brie y reviewed in this paper. We...
A probabillistic description-oriented approach for categorising Web documents (1999)
Norbert Gvert, Mounia Lalmas, Norbert Fuhr
The automatic categorisation of web documents is becoming crucial for organising the huge amount of information available in the Internet. We are facing a new challenge due to the fact that web...
Selective relevance feedback using term characteristics (1999)
Abstract: This paper presents a new relevance feedback technique; selectively combining evidence based on the usage of terms within documents. By considering how terms are used within documents, we...
Selective Relevance Feedback Using Term Characteristics (1999)
: This paper presents a new relevance feedback technique; selectively combining evidence based on the usage of terms within documents. By considering how terms are used within documents, we can...
Combining Document Representations (1999)
This paper presents a formal framework for the combination of document representations based on evidential reasoning. Each indexing method is modelled by an agent referred to as an indexer. Indexing...
A Model for Representing and (1999)
Retrieving Heterogeneous Structured, Mounia Lalmas
this paper we concentrate on content queries, where the retrieval of documents is solely based on their content
Documents often display an internal structure; they are composed of components. For example, a journal contains several articles, which themselves contain paragraphs, tables, etc. With structured...
In this paper we report on a theoretical model of structured document indexing and retrieval based on Dempster-Shafer's Theory of Evidence. This includes a description of our model of structured...
Fabio Crestani, Mark Sanderson, Mounia Lalmas
This paper contains a description of the methodology and results of the three TREC submissions made by the Glasgow IR group (glair). In addition to submitting to the ad hoc task, submissions were...
Experimenting on Dempster-Shafer's Theory of Evidence in Information Retrieval (1998)
This report describes a set of experiments investigating the use of DempsterSchafer 's Theory of Evidence in Information Retrieval. Our experiments use various indexing and retrieval methods to...
Logical Models in Information Retrieval: Introduction and Overview (1998)
The use of logic to model the information retrieval process has become an established research area. Nevertheless, many people in the information retrieval community do not yet appreciate the work...
In this paper we report on a theoretical model of structured document indexing and retrieval based on Dempster-Shafer's Theory of Evidence. This includes a description of our model of structured...
Mounia Lalmas And, Mounia Lalmas, Ian Ruthven
In this paper we report on a theoretical model of structured document indexing and retrieval based on Dempster-Shafer's Theory of Evidence. This includes a description of our model of structured...
The flow of information characterizes the notion of information containment and can generally be defined as the information an object contains about another. The purpose of an information retrieval...
Marcos Theophylactou, Fabio Crestani, Mark Sanderson, Mounia Lalmas
This paper contains a description of the methodology and results of the three TREC submissions made by the Glasgow IR group (glair). In addition to submitting to the ad hoc task, submissions were...
Fabio Crestani, Mark Sanderson, Marcos Theophylactou, Mounia Lalmas
This paper contains a description of the methodology and results of the three TREC submissions made by the Glasgow IR group (glair). In addition to submitting to the ad hoc task, submissions were...
Fabio Crestani, Mark S, Erson Y, Marcos Theophylactou, Mounia Lalmas
This paper contains a description of the methodology and results of the three TREC submissions made by the Glasgow IR group �glair�. In addition to submitting to the ad hoc task, submissions were...
Fabio Crestani, Mark S, Erson Y, Marcos Theophylactou, Mounia Lalmas
This paper contains a description of the methodology and results of the three TREC submissions made by the Glasgow IR group (glair). In addition to submitting to the ad hoc task, submissions were...
Experimenting on Dempster-Shafer's theory of evidence in information retrieval (1997)
This report describes a set of experiments investigating the use of Dempster-Schafer's Theory of Evidence in Information Retrieval. Our experiments use various indexing and retrieval methods to...
A Model for Structured Document Retrieval: Empirical Investigations (1997)
Documents often display a structure, e.g., several sections, each with several subsections and so on. Taking into account the structure of a document allows the retrieval process to focus on those...
A Model for Structured Document Retrieval: (1997)
Empirical Investigations Mounia, Mounia Lalmas, Ian Ruthven
Documents often display a structure, e.g., several sections, each with several subsections and so on. Taking into account the structure of a document allows the retrieval process to focus on those...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Glasgow, 1996.
M. S. Ali, Mariano P. Consens, Mounia Lalmas, Recall Base
Motivation and Approach Current approaches to evaluation in XML retrieval rely on ideal recall base How to evaluate without defining an ideal recall base? Our Approach: Differentiate between the...
Mounia Lalmas, Thomas Rolleke, Norbert Fuhr
Abstract. Intelligent retrieval of hypermedia documents requires sophisticated document representations and querying facilities that allow for content-based and fact-based querying as well as...