Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...
Abstract. Most of the previous research on term weighting for information retrieval has focused on developing specialized parametric term weighting functions. Examples include TF.I...
Our group in the Department of Informatics at the University of Oviedo has participated, for the first time, in two tasks at CLEF: monolingual (Russian) and bilingual (Spanish-to-E...
Word sense disambiguation has always been a key problem in Natural Language Processing. In the paper, we use the method of Information Gain to calculate the weight of different po...
We describe a method for applying parsimonious language models to re-estimate the term probabilities assigned by relevance models. We apply our method to six topic sets from test ...
Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maar...