Web documents present new challenges to conventional Information Retrieval (IR) technologies. This paper describes how these challenges are faced in FameIR, a multilingual multime...
Query expansion by pseudo-relevance feedback is a well-established technique in both mono- and cross- lingual information retrieval, enriching and disambiguating the typically ter...
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
The application of nlp techniques to improve the results of information retrieval is still considered as a controversial issue, whereas nlp techniques in cross-language informatio...