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CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
WikiTranslate: Query Translation for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Using Only Wikipedia
This paper presents WikiTranslate, a system which performs query translation for cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) using only Wikipedia to obtain translations. Queries ar...
Dong Nguyen, Arnold Overwijk, Claudia Hauff, Dolf ...
IR
2008
13 years 10 months ago
An analysis on document length retrieval trends in language modeling smoothing
Abstract. Document length is widely recognized as an important factor for adjusting retrieval systems. Many models tend to favor the retrieval of either short or long documents and...
David E. Losada, Leif Azzopardi
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
A NLG-based Application for Walking Directions
This work describes an online application that uses Natural Language Generation (NLG) methods to generate walking directions in combination with dynamic 2D visualisation. We make ...
Michael Roth, Anette Frank
ICDE
2005
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Load and Network Aware Query Routing for Information Integration
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
IDEAL
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Two-Stage Bayesian Network for Effective Development of Conversational Agent
Conversational agent is a system that provides user with proper information and maintains the context of dialogue based on natural language. When experts design the network for con...
Jin-Hyuk Hong, Sung-Bae Cho