Translingual information retrieval (TLIR) consists of providing a query in one language and searching document collections in one or more di erent languages. This paper introduces...
Yiming Yang, Jaime G. Carbonell, Ralf D. Brown, Ro...
The goal of distributed information retrieval is to support effective searching over multiple document collections. For efficiency, queries should be routed to only those collectio...
We consider the problem of large-scale retrieval evaluation, and we propose a statistical method for evaluating retrieval systems using incomplete judgments. Unlike existing techn...
Although the World Wide Web has of late become an important source to consult for the meaning of words, a number of technical terms related to high technology are not found on the...
Topics in prior-art patent search are typically full patent applications and relevant items are patents often taken from sources in different languages. Cross language patent retr...