The proliferation of the World Wide Web has brought information retrieval (IR) techniques to the forefront of search technology. To the average computer user, “searching” now ...
This paper discusses the challenges and proposes a solution to performing information retrieval on the Web using Chinese natural language speech query. The main contribution of th...
We describe the objectives and organization of the CLEF 2007 ad hoc track and discuss the main characteristics of the tasks offered to test monolingual and cross-language textual d...
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Thomas Mand...
Previous research into the efficiency of text retrieval systems has dealt primarily with methods that consider inverted lists in sequence; these methods are known as term-at-a-tim...
Substantial medical data, such as discharge summaries and operative reports are stored in electronic textual form. Databases containing free-text clinical narratives reports often...