Offering the possibility to query any XML retrieval system in natural language would be very helpful to a lot of users. In 2005, INEX proposed a framework to partipants that wante...
Ranking and returning the most relevant results of a query is a popular paradigm in Information Retrieval. We discuss challenges and investigate several approaches to enable ranki...
With the worldwide growth of the Internet, research on Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) is being paid much attention. Existing CLIR approaches based on query translatio...
Dictionary-based approaches to query translation have been widely used in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) experiments. Using these approaches, translation has been not...
In information-integration systems, sources may have diverse and limited query capabilities. In this paper we show that because sources have restrictions on retrieving their infor...