Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
This paper presents the experiments carried out at Jadavpur University as part of participation in the CLEF 2007 ad-hoc bilingual task. This is our first participation in the CLEF...
We propose and evaluate a mobile, peer-to-peer Information Retrieval system. Such a system can, for example, support medical care in a disaster by allowing access to a large colle...
—This paper compares and illustrates the use of manually and automatically assigned descriptors on German documents extracted from the GIRT Corpus. A second objective is to analy...