We propose a Bayesian extension to the ad-hoc Language Model. Many smoothed estimators used for the multinomial query model in ad-hoc Language Models (including Laplace and Bayes-...
Hugo Zaragoza, Djoerd Hiemstra, Michael E. Tipping
In e-commerce, the protection of user privacy from a server was not considered feasible until the private information retrieval (PIR) problem was stated recently. A PIR protocol a...
Abstract. This paper gives an overview of tools and methods for CrossLanguage Information Retrieval (CLIR) that are developed within the Twenty-One project. The tools and methods a...
This paper presents the results of the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the Mono-lingual and Multi-lingual tasks at CLEF 2004. For these tasks we used an approach ba...
For UFRGS's first participation in CLEF our goal was to compare the performance of heavier and lighter stemming strategies using the Portuguese data collections for monolingua...
Viviane Moreira Orengo, Luciana S. Buriol, Alexand...