For our fourth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, our objective was to verify whether our combined query translation approach would work well with new requests and new...
Consistent and flawless communication between humans and machines is the precondition for a computer to process instructions correctly. While machines use well-defined languages an...
This paper reports on the participation of ITC-irst in the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2003; in particular, in the monolingual, bilingual, small multilingual, and spoken docum...
This paper investigates whether Web comments are of descriptive nature, that is, whether the combined text of a set of comments is similar in topic to the commented object. If so,...
The importance of evaluation in promoting research and development in the information retrieval and natural language processing domains has long been recognised but is this suffic...