Although it has been shown that in test collection based studies, stemming improves retrieval effectiveness in an information retrieval system, morphological variations of queries ...
Abstract. In the last years, cluster based retrieval has been demonstrated as an effective tool for both interactive retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback techniques. In this pa...
Indexing file systems is a powerful means of helping users locate documents, software, and other types of data among large repositories. In environments that contain many differen...
When applying blind relevance feedback for ad hoc document retrieval, is it possible to identify, a priori, the set of query terms that will most improve retrieval performance? Ca...
QRISTAL [9] is a question answering system making intensive use of natural language processing both for indexing documents and extracting answers. It ranked first in the EQueR eva...