Electronic mail poses a number of unusual challenges for the design of information retrieval systems and test collections, including informal expression, conversational structure,...
We describe the INEX 2004 participation of the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. We completely revamped our XML retrieval system, now implemented as a mixture l...
Rapid and inexpensive techniques for automatic transcription of speech have the potential to dramatically expand the types of content to which information retrieval techniques can...
The Spoken Document Processing Working Group, which is part of the special interest group of spoken language processing of the Information Processing Society of Japan, is developi...
We present a new method for information retrieval using hidden Markov models HMMs and relate our experience with this system on the TREC-7 ad hoc task. We develop a general framew...