Full-text scanning oers signicant advantages over other methods of document retrieval but is normally too slow for use on large collections. The Fujitsu AP1000 parallel distribut...
We demonstrate the merits of using inter-document similarities for federated search. Specifically, we study a resultsmerging method that utilizes information induced from cluster...
Background: The evaluation of information retrieval techniques has traditionally relied on human judges to determine which documents are relevant to a query and which are not. Thi...
The objective of the emis project is the conception and realization of a multilingualinformation system on European media law with the following functionalities: search by words, ...
Question Answering (QA) aims at providing users with short text units that answer specific, well-formed natural language questions. A two stage architecture is widely adopted for t...