This paper presents the second participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) task at CLEF 2006. We present the results of the submi...
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...
We describe a methodology for retrieving document images from large extremely diverse collections. First we perform content extraction, that is the location and measurement of reg...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
In TREC 2003, our experiments have been concentrated only on the topic distillation task. We first simply apply the term-based technique to the .GOV web collection, and then re-r...