This paper presents the second participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) task at CLEF 2006. We present the results of the submi...
We hypothesized that language modeling retrieval would improve if we reduced the need for document smoothing to provide an inverse document frequency (IDF) like effect. We create...
Recent years saw an increased interest in the use and the construction of large corpora. With this increased interest and awareness has come an expansion in the application to kno...
The difficulty with information retrieval for OCR documents lies in the fact that OCR documents comprise of a significant amount of erroneous words and unfortunately most informat...
List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...