We describe the objectives and organization of the CLEF 2005 ad hoc track and discuss the main characteristics of the tasks offered to test monolingual, bilingual and multilingual ...
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Gareth J. F...
This paper presents the ITC-irst Multilingual Question Answering system DIOGENE. The system was used successfully on the CLEF-2003, TREC-2003, TREC-2002 and TREC-2001 QA tracks. DI...
In this paper we propose several merging strategies to integrate the result lists of each intermediate run in distributed MLIR. The prediction of retrieval effectiveness was used t...
Abstract. In this paper we propose an approach to deal with the ChineseEnglish cross-language image retrieval problem. Text-based image retrieval and query translation methods were...
This paper describes the first participation of IR-n system at Spoken Document Retrieval, focusing on the experiments we made before participation and showing the results we obta...