The University College London Information Retrieval Group participated in both the Expert Search and Document Search tasks in the TREC2008 Enterprise Track. We used a generic two-...
—This paper compares and illustrates the use of manually and automatically assigned descriptors on German documents extracted from the GIRT Corpus. A second objective is to analy...
Opinion finding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially difficult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this pa...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iad...
As the popularity of areas including document storage and distributed systems continues to grow, the demand for high performance XML databases is increasingly evident. This has le...
The Web is a valuable source of language speci c resources but the process of collecting, organizing and utilizing these resources is di cult. We describe CorpusBuilder, an approa...