The current expansion in collections of natural language based digital documents in various media and languages is creating challenging opportunities for automatically accessing t...
Abstract. We investigates the effectiveness of language-dependent approaches to document retrieval, such as stemming and decompounding, and constrast them with language-independen...
Jaap Kamps, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, B&oum...
This paper presents WikiTranslate, a system which performs query translation for cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) using only Wikipedia to obtain translations. Queries ar...
Dong Nguyen, Arnold Overwijk, Claudia Hauff, Dolf ...
The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QPRP) has been recently proposed, and accounts for interdependent document relevance when ranking. However, to be instantiated, the QPRP...
The aim of an information retrieval system is to nd relevant documents, thus relevance is a (if not `the') central concept of information retrieval. Notwithstanding its impor...