Leveraging information from relevance assessments has been proposed as an effective means for improving retrieval. We introduce a novel language modeling method which uses inform...
We present a corpus-based approach to the class expansion task. For a given set of seed entities we use co-occurrence statistics taken from a text collection to define a membersh...
Anecdotal evidence suggests that story-level information is important for the speech component of video retrieval. In this paper we perform a systematic examination of the combina...
This paper presents the experiments carried out at Jadavpur University as part of participation in the CLEF 2007 ad-hoc bilingual task. This is our first participation in the CLEF...
This paper describes QAST, a pilot track of CLEF 2007 aimed at evaluating the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. The paper summarizes the evaluation framework, the ...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Christelle Ayache, Djamel...