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 ...
This paper presents a simple approach to the Wikipedia Question Answering pilot task in CLEF 2006. The approach ranks the snippets, retrieved using the Lucene search engine, by mea...
In this paper we address the task of finding topically relevant email messages in public discussion lists. We make two important observations. First, email messages are not isolat...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
In this paper we explore the use of category information for ad hoc retrieval in Wikipedia. We show that techniques for entity ranking exploiting this category information can als...
Semantic information helps in identifying the context of a document. It will be interesting to find out how effectively this information can be used in recommending related docume...