The continually and high-rate growth of China's economy has attracted more and more international investors. These investors have an urgent need of identifying patterns in Chi...
This year, we have participated on Ad-Hoc Robust Multilingual track with the aim to evaluate two issues of CLIR systems. Firstly, this paper describes the method followed for quer...
Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have recently proven to be effective for web queries. However, when initial queries have reasonably good quality, these techniqu...
A common limitation of many retrieval models, including the recently proposed axiomatic approaches, is that retrieval scores are solely based on exact (i.e., syntactic) matching o...
Collaborative tagging used in online social content systems is naturally characterized by many synonyms, causing low precision retrieval. We propose a mechanism based on user pref...
Maarten Clements, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. ...