This paper presents the participation of the semantic N-levels search engine SENSE at the CLEF 2009 Ad Hoc Robust-WSD Task. During the participation at the same task of CLEF 2008,...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semera...
Recent work on language models for information retrieval has shown that smoothing language models is crucial for achieving good retrieval performance. Many different effective smo...
Information uncertainty is inherent in many problems and is often subtle and complicated to understand. While visualization is a powerful means for exploring and understanding info...
Dictionary-based approaches to query translation have been widely used in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) experiments. Using these approaches, translation has been not...
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...