The goal of distributed information retrieval is to support effective searching over multiple document collections. For efficiency, queries should be routed to only those collectio...
The performance evaluation of an information retrieval system is a decisive aspect for the measure of the improvements in search technology. Our work intends to provide a framewor...
Users enter queries that are short as well as long. The aim of this work is to evaluate techniques that can enable information retrieval (IR) systems to automatically adapt to per...
This article describes an algorithm called HyperLex that is capable of automatically determining word uses in a textbase without recourse to a dictionary. The algorithm makes use ...
Abstract. Our participation at ResPubliQA 2010 was based on applying an Information Retrieval (IR) engine of high performance and a validation step for removing incorrect answers. ...