As the rapid growth of PDF document in digital libraries, recognizing the document structure and detecting specific document components are useful for document storage, classifica...
Paraphrasing van Rijsbergen [37], the time is ripe for another attempt at using natural language processing (NLP) for information retrieval (IR). This paper introduces my disserta...
Some applications have to present their results in the form of ranked lists. This is the case of many information retrieval applications, in which documents must be sorted accordi...
Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de Almeida, Marcos...
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...
In some information retrieval scenarios, for example internal help desk systems, texts are entered into the document collection without proofreading. This can result in a relative...