This paper presents our experiments in applying semantic information to improve the precision of the information retrieval module in a closed-domain question-answering system. Tha...
This paper is concerned with the evaluation of distributed and peer-to-peer information retrieval systems. A new measure is introduced that compares results of a distributed retrie...
Hans Friedrich Witschel, Florian Holz, Gregor Hein...
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...
The work developed in this paper focuses on the overlap of relevant retrieved documents obtained from different combination of systems and components. Study of the impact on infor...
The main goal of this research is to improve Information Retrieval Systems by enabling them to generate search outcomes that are relevant and customized to each specific user. Our ...