Interleaving experiments are an attractive methodology for evaluating retrieval functions through implicit feedback. Designed as a blind and unbiased test for eliciting a preferen...
Yisong Yue, Yue Gao, Olivier Chapelle, Ya Zhang, T...
We describe an entirely statistics-based, unsupervised, and languageindependent approach to multilingual information retrieval, which we call Latent Morpho-Semantic Analysis (LMSA...
Term translation probabilities proved an effective method of semantic smoothing in the language modelling approach to information retrieval. We use Generalized Latent Semantic Ana...
This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...
Abstract. As a low-cost ressource that is up-to-date, Wikipedia recently gains attention as a means to provide cross-language brigding for information retrieval. Contradictory to a...