We present a new statistical compression method, which we call Phrase Based Dense Code (PBDC), aimed at compressing large digital libraries. PBDC compresses the text collection to ...
This paper discusses our participation in INEX using the TIJAH XML-IR system. We have enriched the TIJAH system, which follows a standard layered database architecture, with severa...
Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) today is dominated by techniques that use token-to-token mappings from bilingual dictionaries. Yet, state-of-the-art statistical transl...
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...