In the robust track, we mainly tested our passage-based retrieval model with different passage sizes and weighting schemes. In our approach, we used two retrieval models, namely t...
The document-length normalization problem has been widely studied in the field of Information Retrieval. The Cosine Normalization [2], the Maximum tf Normalization [1] and the By...
Sylvain Lamprier, Tassadit Amghar, Bernard Levrat,...
XML retrieval is a departure from standard document retrieval in which each individual XML element, ranging from italicized words or phrases to full blown articles, is a potential...
We examine the issues of combining multiple query representations in a single IR engine. Differing query representations are used to retrieve different documents. Thus, when combi...
Abdur Chowdhury, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen