In this paper, we identify factors that affect machine translation (MT) of a source query for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) and empirically evaluate the effect of ps...
Yan Qu, Alla N. Eilerman, Hongming Jin, David A. E...
This paper discusses research on distinguishing word meanings in the context of information retrieval systems. We conducted experiments with three sources of evidence for making t...
The impact of using phrases as content representation for documents and for queries has generally been accepted as a desirable feature in information retrieval systems because phr...
In order to search within corpora written in two or more languages, the simplest and most effective approach is to translate the submitted request into the required language(s). To...
In document retrieval using pseudo relevance feedback, after initial ranking, a fixed number of top-ranked documents are selected as feedback to build a new expansion query model. ...
The wikipediaMM task provides a testbed for the system-oriented evaluation of ad-hoc retrieval from a collection of Wikipedia images. It became a part of the ImageCLEF evaluation ...
One aspect in which retrieving named entities is different from retrieving documents is that the items to be retrieved – persons, locations, organizations – are only indirect...
: Previous multidimensional dynamic hashing schemes exhibit two obvious shortcomings. First, even for uniform record distribution, the retrieval performance of these schemes suffer...
The effects of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) items in spoken document retrieval (SDR) are investigated. Several sets of transcriptions were created for the TREC-8 SDR task using a speec...
Philip C. Woodland, Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Ka...
In this report we describe the approach of the University of Twente to the 2006 GeoCLEF task. It is based on retrieval by content and the subsequent filtering by geographical rele...