Ten groups participated in the TREC-2001 cross-language information retrieval track, which focussed on retrieving Arabic language documents based on 25 queries that were originall...
Information retrieval is an important application area of natural-language processing where one encounters the genuine challenge of processing large quantities of unrestricted nat...
Although commonly used in both commercial and experimental information retrieval systems, thesauri have not demonstrated consistent bene ts for retrieval performance, and it is di...
Almost any information you might want is becoming available on-line. The problem is how to find what you need. One strategy to improve access to existing information sources, is i...
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...