The retrieval of sentences that are relevant to a given information need is a challenging passage retrieval task. In this context, the well-known vocabulary mismatch problem arises...
In this paper, we identify factors that affect machine translation (MT) of a source query for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) and empirically evaluate the effect of ps...
Yan Qu, Alla N. Eilerman, Hongming Jin, David A. E...
The use of domain-specific metadata (subject keywords) is tested for monolingual and bilingual retrieval on the GIRT social science collection. A new technique, Entry Vocabulary Mo...
We present a global discriminative statistical word order model for machine translation. Our model combines syntactic movement and surface movement information, and is discriminat...
We report on the results of a series of experiments with a prototype text retrieval system which uses relatively advanced natural language processing techniques in order to enhanc...