In TREC-10, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) participated in the Web track (ad hoc retrieval task and homepage finding task). The latest version of the Okapi system (Windows 2000 ve...
Jianfeng Gao, Guihong Cao, Hongzhao He, Min Zhang,...
GeoCLEF is an evaluation initiative for testing queries with a geographic specification in large set of text documents. GeoCLEF ran a regular track for the third time within the C...
Thomas Mandl, Paula Carvalho, Giorgio Maria Di Nun...
: We present a novel approach to retrieve metadata to scholarly papers stored locally as PDF files. A fingerprint is produced from the PDF fulltext to query an online metadata repo...
In many Web search applications, similarities between objects of one type (say, queries) can be affected by the similarities between their interrelated objects of another type (sa...
In this paper, we describe research which could lead to a novel approach to gathering an overview of a document in a foreign language. The research explores how much of the meanin...