This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...
We describe the objectives and organization of the CLEF 2005 ad hoc track and discuss the main characteristics of the tasks offered to test monolingual, bilingual and multilingual ...
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Gareth J. F...
Recent availability of commercial online machine translation (MT) systems makes it possible for layman Web users to utilize the MT capability for cross-language information retrie...
In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised approach to query segmentation, an important task in Web search. We use a generative query model to recover a query's underlyin...
Wikipedia provides an information quality assessment model with criteria for human peer reviewers to identify featured articles. For this classification task “Is an article fea...