The majority of recent Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) research has focused on European languages. CLIR problems that involve East Asian languages such as Chinese intr...
Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) and multilingual information retrieval (MLIR) techniques have been widely studied, but they are not often applied to and evaluated for W...
Jialun Qin, Yilu Zhou, Michael Chau, Hsinchun Chen
In this paper the XML Information Retrieval System PF/Tijah is applied to retrieval tasks on large spoken document collections. The used example setting is the English CLEF-2006 CL...
Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra, Roeland Ordelman, Laur...
We propose a Bayesian extension to the ad-hoc Language Model. Many smoothed estimators used for the multinomial query model in ad-hoc Language Models (including Laplace and Bayes-...
Hugo Zaragoza, Djoerd Hiemstra, Michael E. Tipping
This paper presents a visual information seeking system for the WWW called INSYDER1 . The aim of INSYDER is to find business information from the WWW. Information seeking - especi...