Nowadays, searching information in the web or in any kind of document collection has become one of the most frequent activities. However, user queries can be formulated in a way th...
We investigate the problem of ranking answers to a database query when many tuples are returned. We adapt and apply principles of probabilistic models from Information Retrieval f...
Splitting compound words has proved to be useful in areas such as Machine Translation, Speech Recognition or Information Retrieval (IR). Furthermore, real-time IR systems (such as...
Abstract. In this paper we study the performance of linguisticallymotivated conflation techniques for Information Retrieval in Spanish. In particular, we have studied the applicat...
In this paper we will describe Berkeley's approach to the Domain Specific (DS) track for CLEF 2006. This year we are not using the tools for thesaurus-based query expansion a...