Recent work in supervised learning of term-based retrieval models has shown significantly improved accuracy can often be achieved via better model estimation [2, 10, 11, 17]. In ...
One of the greatest impediments to achieving high quality placements using force-directed methods lies in the large amount of overlap initially present in these techniques. This o...
In conventional word alignment methods, some employ statistical models or statistical measures, which need large-scale bilingual sentencealigned training corpora. Others employ dic...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
The creation of language resources for less-resourced languages like the historical ones benefits from the exploitation of language-independent tools and methods developed over th...