Robust Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim

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 blind relevance feedback and named entities. Experiments for monolingual English and French are presented. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing; H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval; H.3.4 Systems and Software General Terms Measurement, Performance, Experimentation Keywords Multilingual Retrieval, Robust Retrieval, Evaluation Measures

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Ben Heuwing, Thomas Mandl
• Keywords: Ad-hoc Retrieval, CLEF 2007, Information Retrieval, Keywords Multilingual Retrieval, Robust Retrieval