The participation of the University of Hildesheim focused on the monolingual German and English and the bilingual German English tasks of GeoCLEF 2006. Based on the results of Geo...
Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hac...
Relevance feedback has been considered as a means of incorporating learning into information retrieval systems for quite sometime now. This paper discusses the research results of...
Abstract. Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) assumes that the topranking n documents of the initial retrieval are relevant and extracts expansion terms from them. In this work, we int...
The retrieval of sentences that are relevant to a given information need is a challenging passage retrieval task. In this context, the well-known vocabulary mismatch problem arises...
Query expansion is an effective technique in improving the retrieval performance for ad-hoc retrieval. However, query expansion can also fail, leading to a degradation of the retri...