IR
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
This paper presents four novel techniques for open-vocabulary spoken document retrieval: a method to detect slots that possibly contain a query feature; a method to estimate occurr...
IR
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
This paper reports on the underlying IR problems encountered when indexing and searching with the Bulgarian language. For this language we propose a general light stemmer and demon...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Adaptive Information Retrieval (IR) systems are designed to optimize retrieval effectiveness and user interaction in an underlying search environment. In this article, we report o...
JASIS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
This paper reports on an experimental study on the differences between spoken and written queries. A set of written and spontaneous spoken queries are generated by users from writ...
TREC
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
We describe an attempt to use word sense as an alternate text representation within an information retrieval system in order to enhance retrieval effectiveness. A performance comp...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
This paper explores the relationship between the translation quality and the retrieval effectiveness in Machine Translation (MT) based Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR)....
LREC
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
The aim of this study was to assess the retrieval effectiveness of nursing students in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. We tested two groups: students from the master Nursing a...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
Query performance predictors are commonly evaluated by reporting correlation coefficients to denote how well the methods perform at predicting the retrieval performance of a set of...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Finding biological entities (such as genes or proteins) that satisfy certain conditions from texts is an important and challenging task in biomedical information retrieval and tex...
SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1998
ACM
We investigate an automatic method for Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) that utilizes the multilingual UMLS Metathesaurus to translate Spanish and French natural languag...