An important challenge for biomedical information retrieval (IR) is dealing with the complex, inconsistent and ambiguous biomedical terminology. Frequently, a concept-based repres...
Dolf Trieschnigg, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jo...
We will present a novel two-step fuzzy translation technique for cross-lingual spelling variants. In the first stage, transformation rules are applied to source words to render th...
Ari Pirkola, Jarmo Toivonen, Heikki Keskustalo, Ka...
This paper presents the participation of the MIRACLE team1 at the ImageCLEF 2005 interactive search task, in which we compare the efficiency of AND monolingual queries (which have ...
This work evaluates a few search strategies for Arabic monolingual and cross-lingual retrieval, using the TREC Arabic corpus as the test-bed. The release by NIST in 2001 of an Ara...
This paper presents an approach of a cross-lingual information retrieval which uses a ranking method based on a penalisation version of the Jaccard formula. The obtained results a...