It has been known that using different representations of either queries or documents, or different retrieval techniques retrieves different sets of documents. Recent work suggest...
This paper reports on an experimental study on the differences between spoken and written queries. A set of written and spontaneous spoken queries are generated by users from writ...
Information retrieval systems consist of many complicated components. Research and development of such systems is often hampered by the difficulty in evaluating how each particula...
Daniel M. Dunlavy, Dianne P. O'Leary, John M. Conr...
Recent availability of commercial online machine translation (MT) systems makes it possible for layman Web users to utilize the MT capability for cross-language information retrie...
As in CLEF 2003, Berkeley experimented with the CLEF Russian Izvestia document collection with monolingual and bilingual runs for the Russian collection. For CLEF 2004 we also expe...