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...
Expertise retrieval has received increased interests in recent years, whose task is to suggest people with relevant expertise. Motivated by the observation that communities could ...
Current search tools on the Web, such as general-purpose search engines (e.g. Google) and domain-specific portals (e.g. MEDLINEplus), do not provide search procedures that guide u...
Suresh K. Bhavnani, Christopher K. Bichakjian, Tim...
We propose a new Web search system that helps users clarify their information needs through interaction. The system represents the user's information needs using a query grap...
This paper presents a system for bilingual information retrieval using commercial off-the-shelf search engines (COTS). Several custom query construction, expansion and translation ...
David Nadeau, Mario Jarmasz, Caroline Barriè...