Ranking function performance reached a plateau in 1994. The reason for this is investigated. First the performance of BM25 is measured as the proportion of queries satisfied on th...
We organized a machine translation (MT) task at the Seventh NTCIR Workshop. Participating groups were requested to machine translate sentences in patent documents and also search ...
This paper proposes a method by which 5WlH (who, when, where, what, why, how, and predicate) information is used to classify and navigate Japaneselanguage texts. 5WlH information,...