Ranking function performance reached a plateau in 1994. The reason for this is investigated. First the performance of BM25 is measured as the proportion of queries satisfied on th...
A novel indexing and access method, called Affinity Hybrid Tree (AH-Tree), is proposed to organize large image data sets efficiently and to support popular image access mechanisms...
We organized a machine translation (MT) task at the Seventh NTCIR Workshop. Participating groups were requested to machine translate sentences in patent documents and also search ...