Crosslingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) usually requires query translation and, due to named entities in the case of IR, query translation requires a good transliteration system ...
Query expansion has been shown effective for both single database retrieval and for distributed information retrieval where complete collection information is available. One might...
This paper proposes a novel approach to measuring XML document similarity by taking into account the semantics between XML elements. The motivation of the proposed approach is to ...
The approach of using passage-level evidence for document retrieval has shown mixed results when it is applied to a variety of test beds with different characteristics. One main r...
: TextWise LLC. participated in the TREC-7 Cross-Language Retrieval track using the CINDOR system, which utilizes a "conceptual interlingua" representation of documents a...
Anne Diekema, Farhad Oroumchian, Paraic Sheridan, ...