The paper describes our participation in Monolingual tasks at CLEF 2007. We submitted results for the following languages: Hungarian, Bulgarian and Czech. We focused on studying d...
This paper describes a rather simplistic method of unsupervised morphological analysis of words in an unknown language. All what is needed is a raw text corpus in the given langua...
MAVE (Multinet-based Answer Verification) is a system for answer validation which combines logic-based techniques and aggregation for identifying the correct answers in given sets...
We describe cross language retrieval experiments using Amharic queries and English language document collection from our participation in the bilingual ad hoc track at the CLEF 20...
Dublin City University (DCU) and University of Tampere (UTA) participated in the ImageCLEF 2007 photographic ad-hoc retrieval task with several monolingual and bilingual runs. Our...
We describe our participation in the WebCLEF 2007 task, targeted at snippet retrieval from web data. Our system ranks snippets based on a simple similarity-based centrality, inspir...
We present two simple but effective smoothing techniqes for the standard language model (LM) approach to information retrieval [12]. First, we extend the unigram Dirichlet smoothi...
In this paper, we present our Hindi to English and Marathi to English CLIR systems developed as part of our participation in the CLEF 2007 Ad-Hoc Bilingual task. We take a query tr...
Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Sagar Ranadive, Om P. Dam...
The objective of the Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) 2007 is to develop systems able to decide if the answer to a question is correct or not. Since it is expected that a high per...