In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) track. Our work involved two aspects: finding good methods for Chinese IR, and findin...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jian Zhang, Endong Xun...
This paper reports on the underlying IR problems encountered when dealing with the complex morphology and compound constructions found in the Hungarian language. It describes evalu...
If a fixed exponentially decreasing probability distribution function is used to model every object’s lifetime, then the age of an object gives no information about its future ...
Information retrieval systems (IRSs) usually suffer from a low ability to recognize a same idea that is expressed in different forms. A way of improving these systems is to take ...
Fabienne Moreau, Vincent Claveau, Pascale Sé...
Uncertain inference is a probabilistic generalisation of the logical view on databases, ranking documents according to their probabilities that they logically imply the query. For ...