Relevance feedback has been demonstrated to be an effective strategy for improving retrieval accuracy. The existing relevance feedback algorithms based on language models and vect...
This paper describes a novel multi-stage recognition procedure for deducing the spelling and pronunciation of an open set of names. The overall goal is the automatic acquisition o...
Abstract. Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is a specialized Information Retrieval (IR) branch that deals with information related to geographical locations. Traditional IR en...
Recurrent event queries (REQ) constitute a special class of search queries occurring at regular, predictable time intervals. The freshness of documents ranked for such queries is ...
After a quick overview of the field of study known as “Lexical Semantics”, where we advocate the need of accessing additional information besides syntax and Montaguestyle sema...
Christian Bassac, Bruno Mery, Christian Retor&eacu...