For our second participation to the Question Answering task of CLEF, we kept last year’s system named MUSCLEF, which uses two translation strategies implemented in two modules. ...
Web searching is a significant activity for many people seeking multimedia information. Major Web search engines, such as Alta Vista, are essential tools in the quest to locate re...
Ranking algorithms, whose goal is to appropriately order a set of objects/documents, are an important component of information retrieval systems. Previous work on ranking algorith...
In this paper, a new recursive algorithm is proposed for optimal estimation of similarity measure used in a content-based retrieval system. This is performed through a relevance f...
We propose a semantic tagger that provides high level concept information for phrases based on several kinds of low level information about words in clinical narrative texts. The ...