In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
Language Modeling (LM) has been successfully applied to Information Retrieval (IR). However, most of the existing LM approaches only rely on term occurrences in documents, queries...
Jing Bai, Dawei Song, Peter Bruza, Jian-Yun Nie, G...
The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to examine the properties of our ANSI C Markup Language (ACML) as a domain-specific language (DSL); and (2) to show that ACML is useful ...
Because of the increasing complexity of products and the design process, as well as the popularity of computer-aided documentation tools, the number of electronic and textual desi...
Information retrieval needs to match relevant texts with a given query. Selecting appropriate parts is useful when documents are long, and only portions are interesting to the user...