Motivated by the hypothesis that the retrieval performance of a weighting model is independent of the language in which queries and collection are expressed, we compared the retrie...
In this paper, we explored how to use meta-data information in information retrieval task. We presented a new language model that is able to take advantage of the category informa...
Rong Jin, Luo Si, Alexander G. Hauptmann, James P....
The retrieval of sentences is a core task within Information Retrieval. In this poster we employ a Language Model that incorporates a prior which encodes the importance of sentenc...
This paper reports on the participation of ITC-irst in the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2003; in particular, in the monolingual, bilingual, small multilingual, and spoken docum...