Ranking for multilingual information retrieval (MLIR) is a task to rank documents of different languages solely based on their relevancy to the query regardless of query’s langu...
Visibly Pushdown Languages (VPLs), recognized by Visibly Pushdown Automata (VPAs), are a nicely behaved family of contextfree languages. It has been shown that VPAs are equivalent ...
The approach of using passage-level evidence for document retrieval has shown mixed results when it is applied to a variety of test beds with different characteristics. One main r...
This paper describes the Markup Analysis Project, a research initiative of the Information Policy and Practice Research Group at the University of Sydney to investigate frameworks ...
Similarity measures for text have historically been an important tool for solving information retrieval problems. In many interesting settings, however, documents are often closel...